My Outlook Email Has Been Frozen by an Incoming Piece of Mail!!HELP!!

12.09.02 | mlmr

[mlmr]

I received some email last night into Outlook. When I went to delete it and highlighted it to delete it (it was the first of the group) it opened two windows, the first asking for a download and the second asking me to choose what geographic area to come from. Interestingly there is no choie on the geographic area. I have to sign off the computer to get out of the program lock. I have rebooted Outlook 5 times and it always goes to the above described scene. I imagine this is a virus. What to do?? I have the free version of Zone Alarm on my computer. Help!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

If the email hasn't actually downloaded and still resides on your ISP's mail server, you should be able to call their tech support people and have it deleted thereby allowing your Outlook to get back to business.

I've done this on two occasions when Outlook pukes and can't digest a particular piece of mail.

Also, if it hasn't actually downloaded and still resides on your ISP's mail server, then Mailwasher will be able to help.

[dyed_in_the_wool]

Good advice. You should also close the 'preview' pane.
This will stop the code from executing and it's the easiest thing to do. It's also the biggest security flaw.
Click on View | Layout and de-select Preview Pane.
It's really that easy and should be shipped that way.
Have fun.

[js1138]

We've installed the security patch from MS on our full Outlook and it prevents the behavior you describe.

I know the MS haters don't want to believe this, but most of the Security updates really do just what they claim. The amount of annoying email behavior has shrunk to zero on my machine since the last round of updates.

[wanderin]

Is there anything that will?

When this happens to me I close Outlook with control alt delete. Then I go to my ISP's home page and check my email there. ISP's usually have a link on their page to access your email while away fron home.

The offending email is usually (a huge file sent to me) right at the top of waiting emails. I delete it and close my email there. Be sure to sign out at your ISP. Outlook works fine afterwards.

[lodwick]

Thanks much for the MailWasher link! Good job.

[fnord]

Did you already fix it? I see the Sponsor button just fine, and it works. In fact, it shows up twice on all the linked pages ...

[abner]

Nope. I posted the wrong link. I've been working with this on my pages, and will transfer them over to the domain when the host gets the FrontPage extensions installed. I fixed it once thanks to Shadowace but the fix isn't staying.

The right link- Here

[chance33_98]

Didja hit refresh ;)

[chance33_98]

I noticed on the sponsors page you have two sponsors buttons.

[js1138]

I thought that in order to activeate the viruses you had to open the attachment. I didn't open an attachment.......

Yes, and you can't get pregnant the first time, either. When You get past this, get a good virus scanner -- Norton or MacAfee -- one that scans incoming and outgoing messages -- and make sure you keep it up-to-date.

[Dimensio]

Bah, "simple"? I use a text-only e-mail reader. If I had bigger cajones, I'd telnet into the mailserver and read the raw spool from there.

[RightOnline]

Frontpage is an abomination; I feel your pain.

I've watched The Lovely Wife learn it from scratch to set up and maintain a Web site for our church worship team. What a bloody nightmare. The folks who created this garbage have never heard of "WYSIWYG".

[chance33_98]

Eudora does great for windows, I don't use it on my sun server though :)

[mlmr]

I had McAffe on here. My husband must have removed it.

[fnord]

Still looks fine for me, except for the double image on the linked pages.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Call your ISP and ask them to delete the message from their server. This worked for me when I had this problem a couple of years ago. And if they won't do it, or keep you on hold forever, get a new ISP (but not Earthlink, as it's a Scientology controlled company and I don't think you really want to be giving money to that outfit).

[mlmr]

control-alt-delete worked!!!Thank you Registered.

[Capt. Tom]

W95.Hybris is a worm that spreads by email as an attachment to outgoing emails. It was discovered in late September of 2000. Although very few reports of infection were reported in October 2000 when the worm was discovered, the worm is becoming more common in November and December

The message may include the text "Snow White and the Seven dwarves" and the attachment may have one of several different names, including, but not limited to:

anpo porn(.scr
atchim.exe
branca de neve.scr
dunga.scr
dwarf4you.exe
enano porno.exe
joke.exe
midgets.scr
sexy virgin.scr

[js1138]

With the current email worms and spam, it's not enough to have a virus scanner. You need to make sure it has the lates definitions. And you need to download and install all the available updates to Outlook.

[Sungirl]

Thanks for your reply....so this worm really does not damage except just spreads?