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  1. JO'Co

    JO'Co Well-Known Member

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    One of my email boxes has stopped working. At my address:

    joco68@msn.com

    I can see all the email and stuff from Facebook going back several days, but none of them will open. There is no problem with my other email addresses. What's going on and how do I fix this?
     
  2. Gator Bill

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    I would have no idea JO'Co.

    I generally don't open mine and just see them in the view when I highlight the message. But I just opened the last one I got.

    Do you have another email you use at least temporarily to see if you can open them then?
     
  3. JO'Co

    JO'Co Well-Known Member

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    Yes. I have several email boxes and they're all working except for

    joco68@msn.com

    I can see the emails, they just won't open. Very strange...
     
  4. JO'Co

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    Wait! My email box started working! After a week of being frozen, it began working this morning for no reason that I can understand...
     
  5. IrishCorey

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    what mail client are you using? (outlook etc) or are you using the webmail program for msn?
     
  6. JO'Co

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    Outlook sucks. You may not like my answer. It involves making a backup copy of a certain file to save the emails, then re-installing Outlook.

    If it's working, don't mess with it then. You most likely had a corrupt file that Windows caught, updated and corrected on its own.
     
  8. JO'Co

    JO'Co Well-Known Member

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    My email box is frozen again. I see there's a letter from Dave Francis in there, but I can't open anything. I'm also getting weird pop-up advertisements to upgrade my video player and my computer crashed three times last night. (Blue screen.)
     
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    You may have to nuke OE and reinstall.

    Don't open that email from Dave, and do NOT click on the link that's in that email.
     
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    My computer had almost become unusable, but I ran everything that Norton had and on the Live Update, it caught something about 15 minutes ago. It was some kind of "High Risk" Trojan. When it was removed I could use my email box again. I'm still getting weird pop-ups though. They tell me that the screen is frozen, because of a "long running script." They also tell me to update my browser and get free back-up." Although I don't recognize the names of the vendors.