Try to recover your Address Book (I recommend you “Address Book Recovery”, a small tool that recovers your contacts as. Click OK, and then Close.īy any chance, are you using Mcafee SpamKiller? I noticed in a forum that the program was causing the problem of duplicate emails: Raise that value to 3000 or just uncheck the box all together. The value in the KB box is usually what is causing the The box “Break apart messages larger than” is probably checked. At the bottom is a section called Sending. In the program, go to Tools –> Accounts –> Mail –> Properties –> Advanced. This problem has been seen in Outlook Express before. I am receiving multiple copies of messages. Follow these steps:ġ.Click Exit on the File menu to quit Outlook Express.Ģ.Click Start, point to Search, and then click For Files or Folders.ģ.In the Search for files or folders named box, type Pop3uidl.dbx, and then click Search Now.Ĥ.Under, right-click the Pop3uidl.dbx file, and then click Rename.ĥ.Type Pop3uidl.old, and then press ENTER.Ħ.To start Outlook Express, click Start, point to Programs, and then click Outlook Express.ĥ. To resolve this behavior, rename the Pop3uidl.dbx file, and then restart Outlook Express. Short of re-doing my entire computer hard drive, what is to be done? Reply I conclude that Norton’s has been targeted by the intruder and maybe a greater vulnerability would be obtained if I followed the hijacked page and bought McAfee. Curiously, when I was still connected and wanted to use Fire Fox to get to Semantec, it kept directing me to McAffe. Obviously my virus/Trojan, whatever it is, is connected to something on the Internet. Then my OE opened much faster, emails opened instantly, and copying stopped. Nothing was found that fixed the problem.

While this went on, I ran Norton Anti-Virus 2006 and updates to the moment, and Spy Sweeper also updated. Then for a long time I could not open OE at all.

Finally I had perhaps six copies of every email on March 1 and no actual new emails coming in, just clones of the original emails.

Whenever I would delete a copy of an email, it would go to the Deleted box and then return the next time I opened OE. Meantime, the system kept saying I was receiving mail, although no new emails came in. When I tried to open them, they were slow opening. On March 1, 2006, my Outlook Express (OE) duplicated all incoming emails.

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