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Hi folks, I'm an Iranian living in Tehran, the capital of Iran. Hereby I bring you an article posted to the Microsoft Customer Service as a feedback, and what I received in response respectively. Did I deserve such an answer? Judge for yourself... The posted article: To Whom It May Concern: Well, to start let me drop a line here. It was 3 weeks ago when I posted an article to one of those Microsoft newsgroups asking a question about the .NET framework. From then on, I started to receive suspicious emails from different sources all claiming that they are the latest security patch for Microsoft Windows. The volume of attachments varies between 144Kbyte to 156Kbyte. Well, you know, Microsoft never distributes its patches this way, so I noticed it's likely to be a Trojan or a Virus and started to delete them manually, of course, after being downloaded by Outlook Express. After three weeks of deleting such things over and over again manually, I created a new email, however, I forgot not to post an article to those newsgroups! And therefore I'm now being attacked by the same thing on my new box. It takes almost 3 hours that my mail box exceeds its predetermined volume and thus I'm completely lost in my join-venture career on the net. Here, I need specifically the Outlook Express development team to give their software the following feature: Users should be able to decide between downloading the *entire email including body*, or just the *header* through any email backend, say whether it's an SMTP mail server or a web based one (like hotmail, msn and the like). If the feature was present on OE, I could easily decide to delete those Trojans without waiting for them to be completely downloaded over my 56Kbps loosely connection. One more thing that's unrelated to this newsgroup but it's targeted to the same above-mentioned problem is the following question: Why Microsoft doesn't let their users to program the hotmail spam killer by a more powerful filter? Say, what if I could program the spam killer to delete files that are 144Kb-156Kb in size? I could easily drop those suspicious emails at the front-door. Thank you for your time, -- Mehdi Mousavi, Software Architect AC&C Corporation, November 2003 And I received the following response: Hello Mehdi, Thank you for contacting Microsoft Customer Service. Mehdi, Microsoft does not have the authority to sell or support its products in certain countries due to U.S. export restrictions. The United States maintains an embargo
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Hi folks, I'm an Iranian living in Tehran, the capital of Iran. Hereby I bring you an article posted to the Microsoft Customer Service as a feedback, and what I received in response respectively. Did I deserve such an answer? Judge for yourself... The posted article: To Whom It May Concern: Well, to start let me drop a line here. It was 3 weeks ago when I posted an article to one of those Microsoft newsgroups asking a question about the .NET framework. From then on, I started to receive suspicious emails from different sources all claiming that they are the latest security patch for Microsoft Windows. The volume of attachments varies between 144Kbyte to 156Kbyte. Well, you know, Microsoft never distributes its patches this way, so I noticed it's likely to be a Trojan or a Virus and started to delete them manually, of course, after being downloaded by Outlook Express. After three weeks of deleting such things over and over again manually, I created a new email, however, I forgot not to post an article to those newsgroups! And therefore I'm now being attacked by the same thing on my new box. It takes almost 3 hours that my mail box exceeds its predetermined volume and thus I'm completely lost in my join-venture career on the net. Here, I need specifically the Outlook Express development team to give their software the following feature: Users should be able to decide between downloading the *entire email including body*, or just the *header* through any email backend, say whether it's an SMTP mail server or a web based one (like hotmail, msn and the like). If the feature was present on OE, I could easily decide to delete those Trojans without waiting for them to be completely downloaded over my 56Kbps loosely connection. One more thing that's unrelated to this newsgroup but it's targeted to the same above-mentioned problem is the following question: Why Microsoft doesn't let their users to program the hotmail spam killer by a more powerful filter? Say, what if I could program the spam killer to delete files that are 144Kb-156Kb in size? I could easily drop those suspicious emails at the front-door. Thank you for your time, -- Mehdi Mousavi, Software Architect AC&C Corporation, November 2003 And I received the following response: Hello Mehdi, Thank you for contacting Microsoft Customer Service. Mehdi, Microsoft does not have the authority to sell or support its products in certain countries due to U.S. export restrictions. The United States maintains an embargo
I also am using OE over a 56KB modem (which barely manages 20K on a good day X| ) and have had the same problem with large spams that have to DL'd before they can be deleted. When I asked here on CP about a solution a kind user (I forget who) pointed me to http://www.ultrafunk.com/products/popcorn/[^] which is a small lightweight email program that allows one to get only the headers from your POP account, and delete the messages directly from the server. I love it, and recommend it to anybody who has the same problem.
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