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Internet => Web Browsing & Email => Topic started by: Peter on April 04, 2010, 09:03:51 PM
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Can anyone shed some light on how email addresses in my address books get corrupted?
I recently had to email the same note to an ex army group, most of whom I rarely email, and found almost a dozen came back delivery failure, on checking them agaist those in my data base I found most of them were unchanged but a few had an aadditional letter tagged onto the end, i.e. another@talktalk.netm where the 'm' came from I have no idea, can anyone help, and can it be prevented?
Regars to all.
Peter
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Have you got a virus ?.
Some of the virus's harvest email address's by looking in your address book and send them off to spam others etc. it may have corrupted your address book ?(just a guess).
Scan your computer for virus's, malware, spyware and do you use a good firewall ? When I used windows I used Free Zonealarm Firewall.
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Hi Mike,
I don't think I have a virus, at least not detected on the regular scans.
After careful checking I found just the one address corrupted this time by just the one added character, similar to what has happened in the past, either that or a dot left out/removed.
If the were new contacts I'd just think of it as my error but as the occur in regular but not often used addresses I suspect my system.
Thanks for the reply.
Peter