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If I've missed answering any e-mails or comments from anyone in the last six months or so I'm very sorry! For ages I've been muttering querulously that when I hit send/receive the little icon at the bottom of the page shows for example '9 new messages' but there will only be one or two in my inbox. Both the husband and the daughter have given me odd looks as I muttered about this, and on one occasion S2C said that they must all have been Spam being caught by the Spam blocker.
Tonight when I commented about it again, having got fed-up with hearing me, he took the laptop off me and said he would 'sort out the settings'. And lo and behold, the Norton Anti-Spam folder had a couple of hundred messages in it. I didn't know I had a Norton Anti-spam folder!
Actually it didn't seem to have any genuine spam in it at all - my Manx.net spam blocker is pretty efficient, and the odd ones that got through that ('make your ochre-coloured money happy' etc.) all got through into my inbox without being caught by the Norton thing either. But e-mails from friends, quite a lot of LJ comments, and a couple of magazine things which I get regularly, but had wondered where they had got to, were all there!
Seems to have been filling up ever since I got this new computer.
So again, if I haven't answered a comment or an e-mail that you sent ages ago, or even yesterday, I am very sorry. Now that I know I've got this little siding, I will check it out regularly!
One thing Norton didn't catch was something I had started down loading thinking it came from Microsoft, then stopped, as it appeared to be a Spam blocker and anti-virus thing and I have Norton. S2C has pointed out that this was probably a trojan, but he thinks he has booted it out - so a good time to use my Trojan icon!!
Tonight when I commented about it again, having got fed-up with hearing me, he took the laptop off me and said he would 'sort out the settings'. And lo and behold, the Norton Anti-Spam folder had a couple of hundred messages in it. I didn't know I had a Norton Anti-spam folder!
Actually it didn't seem to have any genuine spam in it at all - my Manx.net spam blocker is pretty efficient, and the odd ones that got through that ('make your ochre-coloured money happy' etc.) all got through into my inbox without being caught by the Norton thing either. But e-mails from friends, quite a lot of LJ comments, and a couple of magazine things which I get regularly, but had wondered where they had got to, were all there!
Seems to have been filling up ever since I got this new computer.
So again, if I haven't answered a comment or an e-mail that you sent ages ago, or even yesterday, I am very sorry. Now that I know I've got this little siding, I will check it out regularly!
One thing Norton didn't catch was something I had started down loading thinking it came from Microsoft, then stopped, as it appeared to be a Spam blocker and anti-virus thing and I have Norton. S2C has pointed out that this was probably a trojan, but he thinks he has booted it out - so a good time to use my Trojan icon!!
