The Weekly Geek

Setting Security settings in Outlook Express to Restricted and disabling Scripting services will do a lot to protect e-mail.
To do this you will need to open Outlook Express (referred to as OE from here on)
Go to the Menu bar across the top of the OE window and click on Tools
Then click on Options from the [...]

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Welcome back to another exciting and fun filled edition of The Weekly Geek!
Over the next few weeks we are going to go over the basics of securing Microsoft Outlook Express to help reduce the chance of catching a virus, worm or other nasty thing.
In all versions of Outlook Express (OE) comes with the Preview Pane [...]

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Welcome back to this exciting edition of The Weekly Geek!
As promised, together we will continue to learn about the threats that are out to get your computer (maybe even you). This week we will cover viruses. Even though each week we will cover the different types of threats to your system, understand that today most [...]

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Welcome back to another fun filled adventure of The Weekly Geek.
This edition is going to be a little off of our original plan for optimizing your computer. With the advent of the LovSan (also known as the “MSBlaster” because of the files that it creates) I figured I had better let you in on how [...]

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