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To: shadowman who wrote (39947)	3/10/2004 11:03:12 AM
From: Ken Adams	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 110635

All good advice. I'm currently running everything you mentioned except Zone Alarm on my HP. I upgraded to XP Pro a couple years ago and was told it had its own firewall, so I shut off ZA. My new Dell will run XP Home, and I don't know if it has a firewall, or not. So, I'll go with ZA for safety. Name a "good" popup stopper. I'm currently running POP-UP stopper from PanicWare. It was good until a couple weeks ago. Recently, I will go through a 10 or 15 minute period (usually in the afternoons) where I will get deluged with popups. Faster than I can delete them, even though Stopper is fully activated. Thanks too, for the advice on Outlook Express. I'm using it now and I think I'm mostly configured as you've advised, but will go through it to be sure.

To: shadowman who wrote (39947)	3/10/2004 11:54:45 AM
From: Esteban	Respond to of 110635

Good advice. If you are not sure about a message and want to know more, here's how you can safely view it. Highlight the message in the inbox, right click and choose properties. If you then click on the details tab you can see the text of the message, what attachments it contains, and other information without actually opening the message. May keep you from inadvertently deleting Granny's first attempt to email you, or important investment opportunities from deposed Nigerian dictators. ;) Esteban Now that your preview pane is disabled, you will now need to double-click on an e-mail to have it open up in its own window. This gives you the chance to decide whether you want to open the mail in the first place. If any e-mail is suspect (or just plain junk mail), you can now delete it without opening it. Just click once on the e-mail to highlight it and hit the Delete (or "Del") key to delete it.