Email computer glitch--help!!

[Ihorse]

As of yesterday eve--I have NO-mail-not saved-not in the delete file-not inbox--not sent--not anywhere--how did all my important stuff just go away?-almost everyone I ever e-mail is in there--now I am screwed---any body know what I can do-I am fairly good with tractors and engines--but here I am lost!!
thanks d,j,

[Ray Cardoza]

Could be VIRUL or Virus. Do you have a virus scanning program like Norton? I lost half the programs on my computer due to a Trojan virus luckily I was able to get them back with out dumping my hard drive. Good luck

[Craig A]

Before any more time passes what operating system are you running?

[ListerDiesel]

The operating system info that Craig asked for will help others make recommendations, but you should also have some sort of antivirus software running on your PC. Norton, McAfee do paid-for software and there are also free programs on the net.

It used to be fairly easy to keep out of trouble with PC's on the net, but these days you can pick up trouble very easily and must be aware of the problems.

Other things you can use:

Zone Alarm Pro - PC firewall.

Mailwasher Pro - enables you to look at messages and delete them BEFORE you get them on your machine.

We run a fairly large home network with 5 machines on ADSL. We use all these items mentioned above, plus we have a USRobotics Router in the system which helps protect against incoming attempts to get into our system.

There are various undelete options in most of the programmes running these days, but be careful not to do too much with your hard drive as any new stuff coming in will overwrite parts of your disk that may have your missing items stored.

Microsoft also makes updates for its OS's available free on its website, make use of these to keep your system up to date. Windows 95 and 98 are no longer supported with updates, but Win2kPro and XP are. Might be worth a change to a more modern system if you are on the earlier stuff.

Peter

[Ihorse]

Hi---I have every [ware] there is--norton- as well--the operation system is-[Windows-XP] home edition] on a dell comp--browser is Netscape- I noticed this am--there was some trash mails and one of some importance--when I deleted the trash--it was just gone--I could not see it again--it says none found--the trash as well as others are always there unless I [empty] the trash--so that tidbit may help some=one help me

thanks

[JKKD]

Did you by chance change the view to only show new messages? It's easy to do in outlook express. I've had several customers do this.

Jamie