Dummy Buggy Email/ Virus Questions

A few questions;

1. Do you use Hotmail on the web (just through Internet Explorer?) or do you have an email application (like Outlook or Thunderbird)?

2. Have you tried changing your password? Often that can help.

3. If you use the web, and you've tried changing your password, perhaps try logging out on your main computer, and then wiping your cookies/temporary internet files. This can be done through "Tools-->Internet Options-->Delete Browsing History"
After this, if possible, try only using your account on a different computer and see if it stops happening, it could be a virus specific to that one computer.

If none of these work, let me know.
Hope I helped!

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1. I've never had hotmail, so I'm not familiar with this problem. However,

2. I would try what BigRichard said to try.

3. If that doesn't fix it, I'd switch to either yahoo or gmail (I have both, and I haven't had any problems as of yet)

4. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure you can't migrate your information from your current account onto another email server (but I'd ask a techno geek, they know more than I do)

5. I would definitely consult Haken on this one--I just went into "My Firefly" and clicked on Edit Profile", and it looks like it will allow you to update your email without changing your name (it would only make sense as people change email accounts for various reasons). I'd still pass it by Haken as he's the admin.

Sorry I can only be vaguely helpful on this one :\

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Gmail is definitely a great idea.
I've used hotmail, gmail and yahoo at various stages, and I'd say my current favourite is gmail. I just haven't had a problem with it yet, and it's nice and easy to use.

As for moving all your emails, I honestly don't know if there's a way to do it. The only way I can think of is using an email program such as Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird, and sync it with your current account, which will make it download all your current emails and folders to your computer. You can then sync the program with your new email address, and you can keep all those emails in the program, but use your new email address.
But then I have no idea if that would sync them with the email server, so you'd just have to start using the program to check your mail, or at least to see all of your old emails.

Sorry I can't help more with that.

And yeah, I believe you can just change it under settings, so you should be all fine there!

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5. If I switch, can I keep my FFF username?

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Absolutely positively. I'm doing it now, and I've had this username under four different e-mail addresses. One or two of them have actually been my REAL e-mail addresses; others were blind links just to keep "internet stalkers" off my trail. :)

Mike

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