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Warning! - Spammers And Cyber Criminals Exploit The Season Security experts are reminding people to be on high alert for
fraudulent e-mails during the month of December. Spammers and cyber criminals
have already begun sending out spam with messages related to seasonal
shopping and the current economic turmoil. FREE INSTALLATION on High Speed Internet For mere pennies a
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at $125 value! Ask The Help Desk - Can Google Lead ANYONE To My Front Door? Question: I've heard that Google recently implemented a feature
that enables anyone to type a phone number into the search bar and be able to
see the corresponding address and view a map that shows where that home is
located. I'm concerned that this could pose a safety risk for me and my
family. Is there anything I can do? 1. Go to http://www.google.com.
2. Type your phone
number (including area code) in the search bar. 3. Press the
"enter/return" key or click your cursor arrow on "Google
Search." 4. If your address
information appears, click on "Map" located to the right of the
address information. 5. To remove your name
from the Google phonebook, click your cursor arrow on your phone number, and
click on "Request to have your name removed from this list."
Complete the form and click on "Submit Form." Your removal request
will be processed in approximately 48 hours. If you have an unlisted number or cell phone as a primary
contact, this Google map issue will not apply to you. Sites Of The Month - Great Sites To Check Out In December Dare to Compare Short Tutorial - Blocking A Sender's E-mail Address Are you getting annoying e-mails from someone you know? If you
are, you can block the sender's e-mail address so that you will no longer see
their messages in your Inbox. Instead, any e-mails received from that address
would go to your Deleted Items or Junk E-mail folder. Please note that
blocking a sender's e-mail address is not an effective way to fight spam,
since spammers will typically change their e-mail address frequently. 1. With Outlook
Express open, select a message whose sender you want to block. 2. Click your cursor
arrow on "Message" in the menu bar, and drop down to and select
"Block Sender..." from the resulting drop-down menu. 3. When the Outlook
Express alert window opens, it will tell you it has added the sender to your
Blocked Senders List. It will also ask you if you would like to remove all
messages from this sender from the current folder. Click "Yes" to
move all messages from the blocked sender to the Deleted Items folder. Click
"No" to leave the messages where they are. Blocking a Sender When Using ... 1. With Windows Mail
open, select a message whose sender you want to block. 2. Click your cursor
arrow on "Message" in the menu bar, drop down to "Junk
E-mail" from the resulting drop-down menu, and then select "Add
Sender to Blocked Senders List." 3. When the Windows
Mail alert window opens, it will tell you it has added the sender to your
Blocked Senders List and the message has been moved to the Junk E-mail
folder. Click "OK" to close the window. Blocking a Sender When Using ... 1. With Mozilla
Thunderbird open, click your cursor arrow on "Tools" in the menu
bar. Select "Message Filters" from the resulting drop-down menu. 2. When the Message
filters window opens, click on "New..." 3. When the Filter
Rules window opens, type in a name for the filter in the "Filter
name:" field. 4. Next, you will need
to select the conditions that you want to use to filter messages. (This
tutorial demonstrates how to filter by identifying specific senders in the
"From" line.) 5. In the "For
incoming messages that:" section, click the button next to "Match
all of the following" or "Match any of the following,"
depending on how general or specific you want your filter to be. (Windows
Vista also offers "Match all messages" as a selection.) 6. Select
"From" and "is" from the drop-down menus. 7. Type in the
sender's name that you want to filter in the empty box to the right of the
drop-down menus. To add more names, click on the plus (+) sign. 8. In the
"Perform these actions:" section, choose "Delete the
message" for Windows XP SP2 and "Delete Message" from the
drop-down menu for Windows Vista. Click "OK" to exit the Filter
Rules window. 9. The Message Filters
window will reappear and you should see the new filter you just created.
Highlight the new filter and click on "Run Now" next to the
"Run selected filter(s) on:" section. (By default,
"Inbox" will already be selected.) Close the Message Filters by
clicking on the red "X" in the upper right corner.
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