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Hi Ambros, There shouldn't normally be a firewall set up unless you set it up specifically. Something may be blocking your webcam or trying to take it over. Use Ad-Aware SE and SpyBot 1.4 to scan for spyware and malware. As for Thunderbird (I use PINE exclusively), it's possible T-Bird's biggest plus is that it won't auto-open attachments like OE does. Most email messages are relatively small and harmless. The really nasty stuff usually comes through as attachments so that is where T-Bird makes itself more valuable. Tony @ CCN Help -------------- On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Ambros wrote: > Hello there, > > yes, firewall problems. I try to activate my webcam but am told, "... appear > to be > behind a firewall... can't activate webcam." But my webcam worked a coupla > weeks > ago. I still run Win98. Does it have a firewall? I don't remember > installing a firewall. > I do remember, though, a while ago, configuring a firewall. Don't remember > where it > came from or when. Windows FIND does not find a firewall. > > Second question / problem. For my mail, I use Thunderbird, which is not that > much > different from Outlook. I get lots of junk mail and would like to delete it > without even > looking at it lest I get blessed with web bugs and other delights. But, to > delete a message > on Thunderbird, I have to move the cursor over it, which action means that > the message > is opened however briefly. Would one second be long enough for such a > message to > drop a web bug? Is there a way of deleting a message, whose sender I don't > know, in > Thunderbird or Outlook without opening it, however briefly? > > If you have no answer for me, thanks at least for listening. > > waterbuf > > >
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