Tag: Personal Outlook Training
Outlook Hotmail/MSN users, beware!
If you are an Outlook user that checks your email from Hotmail/MSN, you may be getting messages from Microsoft telling you to install the “Outlook Connector”. As of Sept 1, 2009….Microsoft will no longer allow you to use Outlook for checking/managing your email without the connector application.
Just a tip…I had a client over the weekend have a bad Outlook crash when trying to install this. I then decided it was time to install and I had a crash as well. I followed the instructions to a T, Outlook would not open at all after installing. I got 2 failure reports and had to repair my computer. Yep, Call That Girl couldn’t get it to work on the first attempt.
What are you to do now? Back up your Outlook PST before you do anything! You may have more than one…If you need help, feel free to call and set up an appointment for the back up.
Should you install the Outlook connector? If you feel confident that you have a back up, go for it. I only say this because it has the potential of loading up an old PST and putting your other email accounts at risk (like not being able to open ANY folders)
What if the install fails? Call That Girl knows how to get your Outlook working normal again, but it’s a bit tricky and again, we require all of your data is backed up before assisting.
How will this be fixed? We are working on this to make sure that we figure out a fix to help you folks.
Call That Girl!…and get it fixed fast!
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Lisa Hendrickson
Cell 612-865-4475 https://callthatgirl.biz
★Email hackers are on the prowl again★
★Email hackers are on the prowl again★
I had one client this week get taken by the hackers and I received another email from someone questioning it. I did some research and found many folks on the internet having this same hack happen to them.
Change your internet email account password and here is why…
Please read this information
* Hackers are logging into your email accounts, sending spam to your contacts and then changing your password.
* These emails usually include a message about “you” being out of the country and losing your wallet and needing money sent to get you back to the US.
* They are wrote in choppy English, but it’s still wrote in a manner that appears personal.
* You are not notified until one of your contacts tells you about it
* You may or may not be able to log in and see the emails being sent as your password has been changed.
* You will have to notify hotmail, yahoo or gmail about the hack to get your account repaired so you can log in again.
* If you do not pass their account credentials to get it repaired, you will have to create a new account and start over and lose all of your contacts and personal information you have in the email folders/lists, etc. This is sometimes your bread and butter! I know many small business folks who are using hotmail for business and think of all the client information you keep on hotmail’s servers. Change your password today to a unique password for email only.
★What Happened and how to prevent it★
Someone got into your account. How did they do this? Do you recall a time lately when you had to fill in a web form or another website to create an account and possibly had to fill in a password? I’ll bet it’s the same password for your email. This is very common! Everyone uses one password for email, Myspace, Facebook, YOUR BANKING, etc…
The hackers are either getting access to those web form databases and/or are using fake forms to get your information and are by luck, gaining access to the account by the information those that gave them: the email and a password.
This is why you should change your email account password to something VERY unique and do not use it for any other sites on the net. I also recommend you back up your contacts asap…just in case. If you need help with this, feel free to Call That Girl for a phone support call and I can help you with this.
~Lisa
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Lisa Hendrickson
Office 612-746-0566
Cell 612-865-4475
www.callthatgirl.biz
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“People may not remember exactly what you did, or what you said, …but they will always remember how you made them feel”
~Carrie Bradshaw
