setup outlook express for gmail forwarding

the procedure as follows

in order to send and recieve emails via outlook express you must first enable pop service gmail settings.

To enable POP in Gmail

1. Sign in to Gmail.
2. Click Settings at the top of any Gmail page.
3. Click Forwarding and POP/IMAP.
4. Select Enable POP for all mail or Enable POP for mail that arrives from now on.
5. it is always recommend to keep gmail copy in the inbox
6. click save settings.
   

configure Outlook Express

1. Click the Tools menu, and select Accounts...
2. Click Add, and then click Mail...
3. Enter your name in the Display name: field, and click Next.
4. in the Email Address field type you full gmail address (eg-name@gmail.com)
5. in the next select Pop3 in the drop down menu
6. in the incoming mail server (pop3) field type pop.gmail.com
7. in the outgoing mail server (smtp) field type smtp.gmail.com
8. click next
9. type your full gmail address in the account name field
10. type your password in the password filed (you used in gmail)
11. click finish
12. go to the accounts page again (tools > accounts)
13. in the mail tab select the account you create and click properties
    
14. in the Servers tab, check the box next to the My server requires authentication.
15. go to the advanced tab
16. Under Outgoing Mail (SMTP), check the box next to This server requires a secure connection (SSL).
17. Enter 465 in the Outgoing mail (SMTP): field.
18. Under Incoming mail (POP3), check the box next to This server requires a secure connection (SSL). The port will change to 995 automatically. (this is ok)
19. Make sure you enter the correct information in each field.
15. Click OK.

Congratulations! You're successfully configured your mail client to send and recieve Gmail messages.

reduce picture size before email

this is a quick method and you dont need special softwares for reducing your picture size.

• select the picture (or pictures) you want to email
  
• right click on them and point mouse to send to
• now click mail recipient
• the message box shows up and there you have to select '' make all my pictures smaller ''
• depending on your default email settings pictures will be attached to the your default email client.
• now type the address you want to pictures send to
• click send.
  

how to change default email client (win xp)

the procedure as follows

• login as a administrator
• open internet explorer
• click on the tools menu
• click programs tab
• under program tab and click on the email and select your preferred email client in drop down menu
• once selected click apply and ok.

you are done.

hidden file scanner (HFS)

Hidden File Scanner is a free tool that scans drives for hidden files that contained across many directories on your Windows.Hidden File Scanner is portable,there for no installation is required.

Using HFS

You can straight away run the exe file.On the main window, select the drives that you want scan for hidden files.You can choose to scan all drives if you want to, just click the All Drives link.Before you hit the Scan button,you can specify whether to exclude system files, exclude directories from the search.This way, the search results are more logical to view.After complete scan, a list of hidden files will be displayed in the main window. From there, you are allow to unhide or delete them.

In addition, Hidden File Scanner also does a quick scan at start up to detect the appearance of autorun.inf files on all devices including removable media (such as pen drives and external hard disks) If such an autorun.inf file is found, a dialog box will appear where you can either delete, unhide or inspect the content of the autorun.inf. This tool will automatically rate the autorun.inf files as normal, hidden, suspicious or dangerous file.

Note - dont mess up your pc,s

Note that every hidden files is not a virus,you must not simply delete any hidden files found, or otherwise your system will be crashed. If you have such files, and their file name does not help you to identify the file, right click it and open the file information dialog. You will see for most executable files the copyright of the executable file, which might help you identifying it.

download HFS here

overview of combofix

Combofix is a freeware ,Combofix was designed to scan a computer for known malware, spyware and remove them.the process runs completely automatically.you just have to wait and watch.

ComboFix allows the manual removal of spyware infections . It 's a specialized effective cleaning tool, which is useful compared to other malware and spyware removers.

After Combofix finished,a report will be created. You can use this report to search and remove infections which are not automatically removed.

instructions to use combofix

• Disable or Close all anti-spyware, anti-malware or antivirus real-time protection, which may affect ComboFix. (you must do this)
  
• Download the latest version of Combo Fix.
• Close all programs of you computer.
• Double click ComboFix.exe on you desktop.
• Proceed with extreme caution.
  
• When Combofix finished, it will create a new log file for you.

you can download combofix from here