I recently received a Hallmark greeting card from a “friend” in my email in box. The message was NOT, however, a greeting card from a friend. It was an attempted attack on my machine. Since I use a Mac, I didn’t have to worry about this particular trojan. The evildoers who propagated this trojan want you to install zapchast on your Windows computer by clicking on their link and use it to do bad deeds. More information can be found here >> http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/SearchResults.aspx?query=zapchast
What can you do to protect yourself? First of all, install a reputable security application on your PC, from a company such as Symantec or McAfee and KEEP IT UPDATED! We can do this for you as part of our Virtual IT service. I don’t open anything with attachments from people I don’t know, or anything that I haven’t asked for or know about in advance, really. In fact, I don’t open greeting cards and those types of things ever, since I have an aversion to animated stuff with what I consider to be unpleasant music. I still send greeting cards via snail mail.
If you have Internet or network security needs, please give our office a call and schedule an appointment. Call (910) 695-7068, ext. 10. Be careful out there!
Setting up Apple Mail can be accomplished in just a few easy steps.
1. Click on Mail and then Preferences from the menu at the top of the Mail screen.
2. Click on the Accounts icon and then click the + sign in the lower left corner.
3. The General Information window will appear. Fill in your information, based on the example below. Please use your actual email address and information.
4. Click Continue.
5. In the Incoming Mail Server window, complete the required information. Refer to the example below, but replace yourdomain.com with your actual domain name.
6. Click the Continue button on the Incoming Mail Security window without clicking anything else.
7. Click Continue on the Outgoing Mail Security window.
8. Review the information in the Account Summary Window. If everything is correct, click Continue. If you see any errors, click Go Back.
9. Click on Done, if you’re done! If you want to create another email account, you may do so by clicking on the Create Another Account button.
For more information about setting up Apple Mail, please visit Apple.com.
When you have trouble with email, it can be quite helpful to see how your computer connects to the mail server. These actions take place behind the scenes, and are performed by your mail client.
If you’re a Windows XP (and previous) user, go to “Start” and “Run” and type “cmd” in the command line. If you’re using Vista, use the “Start Search” dialog box and type “cmd” and hit enter. Don’t include the quote marks when typing cmd. Mac users, please go to Applications and then Utilities and double click on Terminal.
Now that you have a command line, use the following example to access your mail server.
telnet mail.yourdomain.com 110 Trying 65.162.17.18… Connected to mail.yourdomain.com. Escape character is ‘^]’. +OK Dovecot ready. user you@yourdomain.com +OK pass yourpassword +OK Logged in. quit +OK Logging out. Connection closed by foreign host.
Make sure to type in your actual domain and user name. If you’re able to connect to your mail server using this method, then there is a path to the server, and the problem lies with your mail program (i.e., Outlook, Eudora).
