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Regular Gal 2653 reads
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In the last week about 20% of my email has come through as invisible and I am unable to retrieve it.  I use Outlook Express (don't ask me what version, I am a total computer novice.)  What can I do to fix it?

N.C.Tammy3367 reads

I thought you would want to know about this email "virus". Even the most advanced programs from Norton or McAfee cannot take care of this one. It appears to mostly affect those of us who were born prior to 1970.

Symptoms:
1. Causes you to send the same e-mail twice.
2. Causes you to send a blank e-mail.
3. Causes you to send e-mail to the wrong person.
4. Causes you to send it back to the person who sent it to you.
5. Causes you to forget to attach the attachment.
6. Causes you to hit "SEND" before you've finished.
7. Causes you to hit "DELETE" instead of "SEND."

It is called the "C-Nile Virus."

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Snowblind2947 reads

Ahhhhhhh yes. But on the good side of things, since the memory is the first thing to go(so they say)i won't know that i have it!!  ;-)

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Regular Gal2654 reads

In the last week about 20% of my email has come through as invisible and I am unable to retrieve it.  I use Outlook Express (don't ask me what version, I am a total computer novice.)  What can I do to fix it?

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SuperBowlKen2881 reads

They may be "invisible" since your ISP may have removed an attached virus and that was all that was in the email.

Ken

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Regular Gal3188 reads

At least a few of them are from clients.  I know this because one regular I have emailed me as we were talking on the phone and it came through invisible :(

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SuperBowlKen3028 reads

If possible, provide an email addy so I can b/c you on this.

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Regular Gal3880 reads

I sent you the address to you TER mailbox.

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fourforty43266 reads

For about a week now my Outlook Express has been intermittently self deleting messages (after being received for the most part, I think). McAffee has detected no additional viruses, after deleting many about a weekj ago. Any helpful ideas would be appreciated. Thanks,
444

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Dionisios3327 reads

Have you asked him if he actually emailed you?  Many viruses (including the latest biggie) scan files for email addresses and send to address A with a return address B, neither of whom is the owner of the infected computer.

Or it was from your regular, and his computer is infected with some virus or other, and indeed the ISP deleted the content.

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thebigt4082 reads

Gal,  This is a bug in OE.  It shows up after updating Windows XP.  To fix it, open OE, select Tools, Options, click on the Security tab, and UNCHECK "Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened that could potentially be a virus"
There's no virus protection in Outlook Express -- only this dumb attachments flag that screws most XP users up eventually.  The problem is documented on the MS support site (where this fix came from).

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Regular Gal2576 reads

Ok I did what you said.  I am using Windows 98 not XP, does that make a difference?

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fourforty42196 reads

I also did what you said and I have Windows 2000. Hope it works. My problem, self deleting my e-mails, only started after I installed and ran McAffee virus protection. It got about 17 viruses but semmed to create this self delete problem. Thanks,
444

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Dionisios3171 reads

Too true.  But by way of compensation, these are the same people who

1) Start their sentences with capital letters.
2) Write in sentences.
2) At least try to spell things right.
3) Know the difference between "discreet" and "discrete".
4) Know that there IS a difference between "discreet" and "discrete".

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