Outlook express,whats it doing and why.

[maiden fan]

My daughter's computer has suddenly decided to open outlook express and
try to connect to the net at random times, one problem though, she
dosn't have and never had the internet. I know that because of this
there's no virus but something is causeing it to open, How can outlook
express be shutdown to stop this happening also any ideas as to way
it's doing this. Thank you.

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "maiden fan" <[email protected]>

| My daughter's computer has suddenly decided to open outlook express and
| try to connect to the net at random times, one problem though, she
| dosn't have and never had the internet. I know that because of this
| there's no virus but something is causeing it to open, How can outlook
| express be shutdown to stop this happening also any ideas as to way
| it's doing this. Thank you.
|
| --
| maiden fan


Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file. http://www.ik-cs.com/multi-av.htm

Additional Instructions:
http://pcdid.com/Multi_AV.htm


* * * Please report back your results * * *

 

[Shenan Stanley]

My daughter's computer has suddenly decided to open outlook express
and try to connect to the net at random times, one problem though,
she dosn't have and never had the internet. I know that because of
this there's no virus but something is causeing it to open, How can
outlook express be shutdown to stop this happening also any ideas
as to way it's doing this. Thank you.

You know there is no virus because it has never had access to the Internet?

That's not the only way to get a virus.
CDs, thumb drives, USB hard drives, floppy diskettes, Zip disks and any
external media that comes in contact with the computer what-so-ever.

Check the settings in Outlook Express - make sure it has no account
settings - as you don't need them obviously.

 

[maiden fan]

maiden fan wrote:
My daughter's computer has suddenly decided to open outlook express
and try to connect to the net at random times, one problem though,
she dosn't have and never had the internet. I know that because of
this there's no virus but something is causeing it to open, How can
outlook express be shutdown to stop this happening also any ideas
as to way it's doing this. Thank you.

You know there is no virus because it has never had access to th
Internet?

That's not the only way to get a virus.
CDs, thumb drives, USB hard drives, floppy diskettes, Zip disks an
any
external media that comes in contact with the computer what-so-ever.

Check the settings in Outlook Express - make sure it has no account
settings - as you don't need them obviously.

Thanks, i'll get here to check settings. I don't think there is an
viruses as anything that goes in her computer goes in mine first and
have panda platinum 2006 which I get to scan anything that go'es i
first