Virus Stuff

[Peter Singfield <snkm@btl.net>]

One can't help but notice the havoc reeked by people ill prepared to handle
virus attacks.

And the only solution presented being change the operating system -- change
you Email software.

There is another solution -- and extremely effective one.

It is called "Mail-Washer" and be had for free at:

http://www.mailwasher.net/ 

It allows one to handle incoming mail directly on the server -- before
downloading to your computer.

I greatly recommend this!!

It is extremely simple to use!! Easy to learn.

I have appended some of their description below.

When your living in 3rd world -- lean and mean -- you have to learn to
handle these problems in an expedient manner.

Modern industrialized nations are simply getting to fat -- lazy -- and
mentally compromised.

Time for a changing of the guard -- or so some guess.

OK -- let's see just how many people on these two lists are "sharp" enough
to understand this "solution" -- 

Arnt??

Peter Singfield
Belize/Central America

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General Overview:

MailWasher: a program designed to keep out unsolicited commercial email 
(otherwise known as spam) and email viruses from your computer.

It also allows you to preview and delete emails before you download them,
like emails with large attachments or viruses. So you never have to
download bad emails again.

Plus a really handy feature allows you to bounce emails back to people so
it looks like your address doesn't exist. So if you're getting a lot of
unsolicited email or you gave your email address to the wrong person you
can now bounce it back to them so they can take your name off their list.

It's free and easy to download and use, so do it now! Just click on the
link below:

http://www.mailwasher.net/download/

or go to 

http://www.mailwasher.net/ 

to find out more information about it.


Part of their FAQ: 

Q.        How does MailWasher work? 
A.        MailWasher works directly with your email server, exactly like
your email program does. But there is one important difference: you can
tell MailWasher to delete a message at the server, without downloading it -
or you can bounce an email back to the sender so that it looks as though
your address is not valid.

MailWasher retrieves information about all the emails on the server. With
that information (some of which is also processed by MailWatcher) you can
decide what to do with each individual email - download, delete, or bounce
back.

If you check your accounts with MailWasher first, you can delete or bounce
emails the emails you do not want. Then, when you use your email program,
it downloads only the remaining emails, those that you want to read. 

MailWasher can be thought of as a "first line of defence" which can weed
out junk, large wasteful attachments, and potentially harmful viruses.


Q.        How do I start using MailWasher? 
A.        To begin using MailWasher, here's all you need to do.

To check email, don't open your email client first. Instead, just start
MailWasher by double clicking on the desktop icon, or going to Start menu,
Programs, then MailWasher.

The MailWasher program will then start and will tell you what messages you
have waiting for you on the email server. In the check boxes, select
whether to Delete or Bounce the messages (if nothing is checked, the emails
will simply be downloaded to your email client as normal), and then select
process mail. Processing mail will delete or bounce the emails you have
selected. Your email client will open and you can download the remaining
emails as you normally do. 

Q.        What is spam? 
A.        Spam is another word for unsolicited junk email. 

  Setup 

Q.        Which operating systems does MailWasher run on? 
A.        Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP and XP Pro.

Q.        What are the minimum requirements to run MailWasher? 
A.        4 Mb of RAM, 4Mb of disk space, and a modem.

Q.        Which email programs does MailWasher work with? 
A.        MailWasher works independently of other email programs so it
doesn’t matter which one you use. 

Q.        Which mail protocols does MailWasher support? 
A.        At this stage only POP3 is supported. I may introduce support for
MAPI and certain web based accounts such as Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL if there
is enough demand.

Q.        How can I download MailWasher? 
A.        On the home page, click on download. A box will POP up and ask if
you want to save to disk or run from location. Click on save to disk and
press ok. A new box will appear asking where you want to download it to.
Select your location and click save. MailWasher is 1.5 Megabytes in size
and takes approximately 4 minutes with a 56k modem to download or about 5
seconds with a DSL connection.

Q.        How do I install MailWasher?

A.        Double click on the downloaded file and the installation will
begin. It is a very easy installation and when finished will ask if you
want to start the program file. If you click ok, MailWasher will start and
ask if you want to import existing email accounts or add new ones. Once
this is done, MailWasher will check those accounts for email.

Q.        Does MailWasher run in the background? 
A.        If you have a permanent connection to the internet, you can set
MailWasher to automatically check mail at a pre-determined interval via the
tools, options menu.

Q.        Which email client will MailWasher start up? 
A.        MailWasher will use your default email client.


Q.        How does MailWasher bounce messages? 
A.        MailWasher uses an algorithm to determine the best route to send
the bounced message back (from, reply to, return path) and actually sends
the bounce back via your isp's postmaster, so it looks exactly like it has
come from your isp and not from you at your address. If the spammer has
used a fake address, then your bounce message will itself be bounced back
to the postmaster and you won't receive the bounced bounce email. 

Q.        What does the bounced message look like? 
A.        Send yourself an email, then bounce it. The message will be
bounced back to the sender and they will receive an email similar to a
returned mail message you would receive if you sent an email to a wrong
address.

Q.        Will the spammers know I am bouncing emails? 
A.        No, the bounced messages look exactly like a returned mail
message you would receive if you sent an email off to a wrong address.
There is no way 

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