Outlook Express transfered my Bellsouth emails without open O.E.

[Joe Presepe]

I found all of my Bellsouth emails gone. Bellsouth told me to look in Outlook
or Outlook Express. The emails were in Outlook Express. I have never used my
Outlook Express before. How did the get in there? Is there a way to prevent
this from happening again?

 

[VanguardLH]

in message

I found all of my Bellsouth emails gone. Bellsouth told me to look
in Outlook
or Outlook Express. The emails were in Outlook Express. I have never
used my
Outlook Express before. How did the get in there? Is there a way to
prevent
this from happening again?

Probably because you defined the e-mail account in Outlook Express.
At some point, OE was ran and it yanked all your e-mails. If you are
using the fluffy Fisher-Price GUI to Windows XP (you never mentioned
WHICH version of Windows that you use) then it uses a MAPI-compliant
client, like Outlook or Outlook Express, to poll your accounts defined
within them to check on new e-mails (and why you see an e-mail count
on the Welcome Screen). I got rid of the fluff GUI (Welcome Screen,
Start menu, and Fast User Switching) as soon as I finished the initial
install of Windows XP so I can't say if polling for a new-mail count
could possible end up actually yanking the new e-mails. Of course, if
you are infected and some mail trojan is using your MAPI clients then
it ran OE for you when spewing out its spam. If you choose to share
your login account with anyone else then you also chose to lower
security and maybe that someone else ran OE. If you have kids, make
sure they use restricted accounts and that you change your login
password (after scannng for keyloggers and setting the BIOS so the
kids cannot boot using the CD/DVD or floppy drives to load an OS from
there).

 

[Qfreed]

You didn't perhaps recently get a new computer or install Vista as your OS
did you?
Outlook Express is call Windows Mail in Vista. It is the default email
program in Vista unless the user resets that. If you recently installed
Vista and opened Windows Mail it may have imported all your Bellsouth mail.
If you believe this is what is happening, go to the Start menu, select
default programs and set Outlook as your default email application.