G
Gil Scott Egret
Windows XP user; MS Office 2003
A question regarding outlook express:
About a week ago I noticed that about one months worth of emails had been
deleted from the "deleted items" folder in outlook express. I did not delete
them manually and no one else has access to the machine. They just seem to
have vanished. No big deal, but a tad odd. Several days after that I found
that I was unsubscribed from a number of newsgroups that I read regularly.
Again, no big deal. Then yesterday, I found that an OE local folder that I
had created called "save" in which I stored important or unanswered email
had disappeared, along with the important and or unanswered email. Bigger
deal.
Interweb research indicated that this had happened to other McAfee users. I
spoke to Mcafee, however, which claimed that the problem had been corrected
in their 7.0 release; I use M 10.0.
I then called the computer manufacturer (MS's site says that they're the
software help entity because the SF was preinstalled.) The help guy there,
who was no help at all, said that what I said happened was impossible, and
that the only thing that could have happened is that someone either broke
into my apartment and deleted the emails manually or hacked into my PC and
deleted the emails remotely. Which is absurd for a number of reasons, not
the least of which is: why would anyone hack into my computer to permanently
delete chinese porn spam that i had already deleted. Doesn't make sense.
This AM I located a pst file called "save" in the microsoft folder on my
hard drive, but when I opened it all that was there was a long line of
boxes, of the sort that word or word perfect displays when it can't read
characters. The other pst files open and display properly.
Although I'm pretty much resigned to the deletion of these emails and
whatnot, I'd like to prevent it from happening again. So I'm wondering:
- has anyone ever heard of this happening?
- what are the odds that it's just a random memory glitch (or something)?
- if its not an act of god, is there a fix?
The only thing that I did to the PC recently was defrag the HD. Although I
don't see how that could have affected anything, I figured I mention it.
Any information / advice appreciated. TIA.
A question regarding outlook express:
About a week ago I noticed that about one months worth of emails had been
deleted from the "deleted items" folder in outlook express. I did not delete
them manually and no one else has access to the machine. They just seem to
have vanished. No big deal, but a tad odd. Several days after that I found
that I was unsubscribed from a number of newsgroups that I read regularly.
Again, no big deal. Then yesterday, I found that an OE local folder that I
had created called "save" in which I stored important or unanswered email
had disappeared, along with the important and or unanswered email. Bigger
deal.
Interweb research indicated that this had happened to other McAfee users. I
spoke to Mcafee, however, which claimed that the problem had been corrected
in their 7.0 release; I use M 10.0.
I then called the computer manufacturer (MS's site says that they're the
software help entity because the SF was preinstalled.) The help guy there,
who was no help at all, said that what I said happened was impossible, and
that the only thing that could have happened is that someone either broke
into my apartment and deleted the emails manually or hacked into my PC and
deleted the emails remotely. Which is absurd for a number of reasons, not
the least of which is: why would anyone hack into my computer to permanently
delete chinese porn spam that i had already deleted. Doesn't make sense.
This AM I located a pst file called "save" in the microsoft folder on my
hard drive, but when I opened it all that was there was a long line of
boxes, of the sort that word or word perfect displays when it can't read
characters. The other pst files open and display properly.
Although I'm pretty much resigned to the deletion of these emails and
whatnot, I'd like to prevent it from happening again. So I'm wondering:
- has anyone ever heard of this happening?
- what are the odds that it's just a random memory glitch (or something)?
- if its not an act of god, is there a fix?
The only thing that I did to the PC recently was defrag the HD. Although I
don't see how that could have affected anything, I figured I mention it.
Any information / advice appreciated. TIA.