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To: Albion Wilde

No problem.

The ISP email is a feature of your provider. You can go to their website, login to your ISP account and disable the email feature -if possible. The best option is to configure your premise modem/router to avoid getting hacked.

Login to your ISP modem via the web interface to it:
Bring up a blank http:// webpage. The ISP router/modems usually have a default address (from within the LAN) of 192.168.1.1. Enter that to bring up the modem’s logon page. If you haven’t changed the logon it will be the default something like Admin/Password123. If you’re unsure google it via the name of your ISP. Once you get into the router the firewall feature will have ports and/or protocols. Disable/block port 25 or the SMTP protocol if you do not directly access an email server. Web mail will be unaffected by this.

Most of all set a password on your modem/router other than the default. That’ll stop the hack mentioned in this article.


74 posted on 01/19/2014 9:15:49 AM PST by Justa
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To: Justa
You can go to their website, login to your ISP account and disable the email feature...

You are a prince (or a princess) for taking the time to educate me! Thank you so much!

75 posted on 01/19/2014 10:25:27 AM PST by Albion Wilde (The less a man knows, the more certain he is that he knows it all.)
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