Help! Scam/spam all over my Mac/Entourage!

[eek]

And even though I delete the spams right away I've discovered that these scam emails are hiding their addresses in my Entourage address book.

These addresses don't show up if I just go looking through my address book, I only notice them when I begin to type out a real address and a similar fake one appears. Otherwise they're invisible.

What's more, I can't seem to delete them .

What the heck can I do and how bad a virus--thingy is this?

Am I passing stuff along to friends unbeknownst now?

Phooey!

[alfredo]

1. Why are you using MS products? You are asking for spyware and

such nasties by using anything by them.

Entourage features are nice, but the more crap added to their mail app exposes the user to more exploits.

[eek]

2. Inertia

My present Mac is a PowerBoog G3. Entourage was just there.
I also had Eudora but disliked it so I just started using Entourage and was accustomed to it. Hell: I didn't know who made it!
Besides, "Macs don't get viruses."

Anyway, 4-5 years ago when I got this computer I didn't know the depths of MS's evil.

I will be buying a new PB soon but not until Mercury un-retrogrades.
Until then, I have this.

Should I just Tombstone this email and start a new one for now?
Am I contagious?

wahhhhh...

[alfredo]

3. Do you have anti virus software?

What OS are you running, OSX or OS-9?

Just for the hell of it, trash the preferences for Entourage. don't forget to save your settings.

[rocktivity]

4. Are you deleting them or marking them as junk?

Marking them as junk sends them into its own folder, which you can open later. For the first few weeks, you should skim through the junk folder to make sure you're not deleting an e-mail you want. If you find one, just mark it as "not junk." After a few weeks, Entourage will "learn" your e-mail "style," and your spam should begin to dwindle.

:headbang:
rocknation

[eek]

5. I was deleting them.

But the email addresses are "hiding" in my address book.

I just now changed Preferences: the one that adds the address of all incoming. I ditched that one.

Everything is running so slowly now: I will be glad when Mercury leaves retrograde because my poor computer is getting sicker by the day yet I don't want to buy my new one yet.

Thanks for the suggestions, y'all!

[Poiuyt]

6. Try cleaning up your cache

Hi eek-

If your system is slowing down, it probably needs to have the internet cache deleted. The easiest way to do this is with a utility program like Onyx or Yasu. Note - this will not delete those email addresses, but it will speed up a sluggish system.

[eek]

8. is this different than when I "clear cache" in browser prefs?

thanks for the suggestions: I'm going to check out the new addresses thing, too

[Poiuyt]

7. Try here:

Go to the Entourage Mail & News Preferences and click on the "Compose" tab. At the bottom of the screen there is a "Recent Addresses" check box and right under that is a button that says, "Clear List."

I haven't tried it, but that would seem to do what you want.

[dwckabal]

10. Confirmed

This will fix your problem. It seems that Entourage keeps a list of all recent e-mail addresses used, whether incoming or outgoing. Once you clear the list, addresses won't show up unless they are in your address book.

[geekgrrl]

9. I use Entourage- try SpamSieve

I use Entourage. Yeah, I would love to be MS free, but I love Entourage. I tried mail/ical/address book and found it a pain that they weren't more integrated. (I will probably try them out again with Tiger).

Anyway- using Entourage will NOT leave you open to spyware and crap. That's just a silly thing to assert. Any email address is going to get spam. And spyware just doesn't exist for macs (in anyway that is worth worrying about).

I don't know why Entourage is remembering all of the email addresses that send you mail- try deleting the prefs like someone suggested to get rid of that crap and start from scratch.

I keep *all* spam out of my inbox with a great app called SpamSieve (http://c-command.com/spamsieve). Just ignore Entourage's junk filter altogether.

You have to train SpamSieve- tell it what is good mail and spam mail, but then it works to keep everything that is crap out of your inbox. Then every once in a while you delete all the spam. I couldn't live without this application.