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From: Karla Huebner <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Virus or what?? Preview (OT)
Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 09:40:52 -0400
References: <3CCF54A6.5CE7B25F@reigelridge.com><ALEFIIBIFFDHGDMAIPBACEBMCFAA.kdransom@earthlink.net><4.3.2.7.2.20020430084154.00c35b40@pop3.norton.antivirus><004501c1f085$b64b7680$8eb00150@oemcomputer>
In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20020429232204.00a6be10@pop.pond.com>


Any suggestions on a web-based account that can also download? I tried
Yahoo as a second account, as it was well reviewed, but no sooner had I
begun using it in a big way than they decided to charge for downloadable
e-mail. I don't want to pay for two accounts! I really hate reading e-mail
online and only want this ability for 1) checking e-mail away from home and
2) avoiding spam/viruses.

Karla

At 11:34 PM 4/29/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Sorry for jumping in at such a late point in this discussion, but what a
>lot of computer pros (whatever that is) seem to do is get a web-based
>email account, such as Yahoo for mailing lists and only use their personal
>email address for very close friends and relatives. The web-based email
>doesn't come onto your computer - you are viewing it on the server. Ergo,
>the virus doesn't make it to your computer.
>
>In my case, my ISP provides the capability to view my email on the web
>thru a web page by using my username and password. I check my mail on the
>web and delete any containing viruses or appearing suspicious. Most of the
>Kleez viruses are around 125K in size, which is one tip off what it is. I
>delete them while they sit out on the server, and they never get onto my
>computer. Then I access my email from Eudora and download all the messages
>I haven't deleted from the server. The viruses never get to my computer.
>
>I have also found that if I open the virus attachment on the web, I got a
>"page can't be displayed" which is another indication of the virus. I have
>Norton, but very little makes it to my computer. I have no idea what the
>web server does to handle it. :-)
>
>Sam

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