Unknow account profile sent from Outlook Express 6

Hi Everyone,

Today I downloaded
and set-up the latest Thunderbird version on my WinXP Pro SP3 computer . I
plan to delete my Yahoo e-mail , and just use Outlook Express and Thunder
Bird .
When I clicked to import my e-mail settings from Outlook Express 6 , I saw
that 2-profiles had been imported , my profile and another account identity
that I never created and I knew nothing about !
The other account identity is listed as (1) account , which has the same POP
address as mine . Also the other account identity has a full first and last
name , a SMTP address and a e-mail address. I have never seen this account
before Thunderbird imported it from some where?
My concern now is that this 2nd account identity , could be the result of
malware or someone hacking in to my computer . I know that Windows Identities
keeps creating a "main identity" even after I keep removing it. And about
6-months ago Outlook Express suddenly was unable to send "read receipts" to
senders who requested "read receipts" , after successfully doing so for years.
How could I tell if this 2nd account identity is the result of malware , and
if so what kind of malware could have caused this?
Feedback will be appreciated .
P.S. I also posted this question on the Thunder Bird forums.But no replies.
Thanks.
--
your friend,
Larry

I have never heard of OE creating a new main Identity.
If you create a new Windows user, OE will have a main Identity.
To delete an Identity, you have to be in another Identity.
Look at the date of the files in the Identity store folder.
I doubt that malware would create another Identity.
--
Ronald Sommer

"leoliver" wrote in message
...

Hi Everyone,

Today I downloaded
and set-up the latest Thunderbird version on my WinXP Pro SP3 computer . I
plan to delete my Yahoo e-mail , and just use Outlook Express and Thunder
Bird .
When I clicked to import my e-mail settings from Outlook Express 6 , I
saw
that 2-profiles had been imported , my profile and another account
identity
that I never created and I knew nothing about !
The other account identity is listed as (1) account , which has the same
POP
address as mine . Also the other account identity has a full first and
last
name , a SMTP address and a e-mail address. I have never seen this account
before Thunderbird imported it from some where?
My concern now is that this 2nd account identity , could be the result of
malware or someone hacking in to my computer . I know that Windows
Identities
keeps creating a "main identity" even after I keep removing it. And about
6-months ago Outlook Express suddenly was unable to send "read receipts"
to
senders who requested "read receipts" , after successfully doing so for
years.
How could I tell if this 2nd account identity is the result of malware ,
and
if so what kind of malware could have caused this?
Feedback will be appreciated .
P.S. I also posted this question on the Thunder Bird forums.But no
replies.
Thanks.
--
your friend,
Larry

[quoted reply edited for legibility]

I plan to delete my Yahoo e-mail , and just use Outlook Express and
ThunderBird .

Why both, if I may ask?

OE File | Identities | Manage identities: How many identities are listed
here, what are their names, and which is selected as the default?

Now use OE File | Switch identities to open each identity, in turn: Which is
the one you've been using lately and what is its name?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

leoliver wrote:
Today I downloaded
and set-up the latest Thunderbird version on my WinXP Pro SP3 computer . I
plan to delete my Yahoo e-mail , and just use Outlook Express and Thunder
Bird .

When I clicked to import my e-mail settings from Outlook Express 6 , I saw
that 2-profiles had been imported , my profile and another account
identity
that I never created and I knew nothing about !

The other account identity is listed as (1) account , which has the same
POP
address as mine . Also the other account identity has a full first and
last
name , a SMTP address and a e-mail address. I have never seen this account
before Thunderbird imported it from some where?

My concern now is that this 2nd account identity , could be the result of
malware or someone hacking in to my computer . I know that Windows
Identities keeps creating a "main identity" even after I keep removing it.

And about 6-months ago Outlook Express suddenly was unable to send "read
receipts" to senders who requested "read receipts" , after successfully
doing so for years. How could I tell if this 2nd account identity is the
result of malware , and if so what kind of malware could have caused this?
Feedback will be appreciated .

P.S. I also posted this question on the Thunder Bird forums.But no
replies.
Thanks.

Is this an e-mail account provided by your ISP? Some ISP's as part of
the installation automatically configure an e-mail account for you. The
the account is created as a result of running some ISP troubleshooting.
I've seen quite a few people who end up with an "(1)" account.

It's probably Not any malware.

You can just delete the account that you are not using.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



"leoliver" wrote in message
...

Hi Everyone,

Today I
downloaded
and set-up the latest Thunderbird version on my WinXP Pro SP3 computer
. I
plan to delete my Yahoo e-mail , and just use Outlook Express and
Thunder
Bird .
When I clicked to import my e-mail settings from Outlook Express 6 ,
I saw
that 2-profiles had been imported , my profile and another account
identity
that I never created and I knew nothing about !
The other account identity is listed as (1) account , which has the
same POP
address as mine . Also the other account identity has a full first and
last
name , a SMTP address and a e-mail address. I have never seen this
account
before Thunderbird imported it from some where?
My concern now is that this 2nd account identity , could be the result
of
malware or someone hacking in to my computer . I know that Windows
Identities
keeps creating a "main identity" even after I keep removing it. And
about
6-months ago Outlook Express suddenly was unable to send "read
receipts" to
senders who requested "read receipts" , after successfully doing so
for years.
How could I tell if this 2nd account identity is the result of malware
, and
if so what kind of malware could have caused this?
Feedback will be appreciated .
P.S. I also posted this question on the Thunder Bird forums.But no
replies.
Thanks.
--
your friend,
Larry

I installed Thunderbird because I wanted to test it , to see if Thunderbird
had the same problems as OE 6 . Such as suddenly not being able to send
return read receipts. Which Thunderbird does and OE 6 still won't .
(search the OE 6 forum for leoliver posts)
Thunderbird does , like OE 6 , has problems with links to this forum . The
links to posts I made to this forum, in e-mail notification of replies, still
takes me to blank pages. But today I opened up this forum in IE 7, and then
clicked on the link from a e-mail notification of reply's to my forum posts,
and Thunderbird took me to the correct web-page. I'll test that in OE 6 also.
I was advised to use a newsreader , instead of a regular e-mail account ,
to access this forum. And I used a newsreader for a while, and I could read
messages, but had problems with posting messages to the correct forum. So I
deleted the newsreader account. Maybe I need to spend more time learning how
to use a newsreader account. But I would still like to know why the return
links suddenly started taking me to blank pages when they worked before .
I'll keep trying.
--
your friend,
Larry


"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

[quoted reply edited for legibility]

I plan to delete my Yahoo e-mail , and just use Outlook Express and
ThunderBird .

Why both, if I may ask?

OE File | Identities | Manage identities: How many identities are listed
here, what are their names, and which is selected as the default?

Now use OE File | Switch identities to open each identity, in turn: Which is
the one you've been using lately and what is its name?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

leoliver wrote:
Today I downloaded
and set-up the latest Thunderbird version on my WinXP Pro SP3 computer . I
plan to delete my Yahoo e-mail , and just use Outlook Express and Thunder
Bird .

When I clicked to import my e-mail settings from Outlook Express 6 , I saw
that 2-profiles had been imported , my profile and another account
identity
that I never created and I knew nothing about !

The other account identity is listed as (1) account , which has the same
POP
address as mine . Also the other account identity has a full first and
last
name , a SMTP address and a e-mail address. I have never seen this account
before Thunderbird imported it from some where?

My concern now is that this 2nd account identity , could be the result of
malware or someone hacking in to my computer . I know that Windows
Identities keeps creating a "main identity" even after I keep removing it.

And about 6-months ago Outlook Express suddenly was unable to send "read
receipts" to senders who requested "read receipts" , after successfully
doing so for years. How could I tell if this 2nd account identity is the
result of malware , and if so what kind of malware could have caused this?
Feedback will be appreciated .

P.S. I also posted this question on the Thunder Bird forums.But no
replies.
Thanks.

...I would still like to know why the return
links suddenly started taking me to blank pages when they worked before .
I'll keep trying.

I would still like you to answer my questions. I would also like you to
stick to the subject of this thread: The behavior of those links in email
notifications has nothing to do with what happened when TBird imported OE
data (which is probably related to a Windows setting and nothing in OE).

leoliver wrote:
I installed Thunderbird because I wanted to test it , to see if
Thunderbird
had the same problems as OE 6 . Such as suddenly not being able to send
return read receipts. Which Thunderbird does and OE 6 still won't .
(search the OE 6 forum for leoliver posts)
Thunderbird does , like OE 6 , has problems with links to this forum .
The
links to posts I made to this forum, in e-mail notification of replies,
still takes me to blank pages. But today I opened up this forum in IE 7,
and then clicked on the link from a e-mail notification of reply's to my
forum posts, and Thunderbird took me to the correct web-page. I'll test
that in OE 6 also. I was advised to use a newsreader , instead of a
regular e-mail account ,
to access this forum. And I used a newsreader for a while, and I could
read
messages, but had problems with posting messages to the correct forum. So
I
deleted the newsreader account. Maybe I need to spend more time learning
how
to use a newsreader account. But I would still like to know why the return
links suddenly started taking me to blank pages when they worked before .
I'll keep trying.

PA Bear wrote:
[quoted reply edited for legibility]

I plan to delete my Yahoo e-mail , and just use Outlook Express and
ThunderBird .

Why both, if I may ask?

OE File | Identities | Manage identities: How many identities are listed
here, what are their names, and which is selected as the default?

Now use OE File | Switch identities to open each identity, in turn: Which
is the one you've been using lately and what is its name?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

leoliver wrote:
Today I downloaded
and set-up the latest Thunderbird version on my WinXP Pro SP3 computer .
I
plan to delete my Yahoo e-mail , and just use Outlook Express and
Thunder
Bird .

When I clicked to import my e-mail settings from Outlook Express 6 , I
saw
that 2-profiles had been imported , my profile and another account
identity
that I never created and I knew nothing about !

The other account identity is listed as (1) account , which has the same
POP
address as mine . Also the other account identity has a full first and
last
name , a SMTP address and a e-mail address. I have never seen this
account
before Thunderbird imported it from some where?

My concern now is that this 2nd account identity , could be the result
of
malware or someone hacking in to my computer . I know that Windows
Identities keeps creating a "main identity" even after I keep removing
it.

And about 6-months ago Outlook Express suddenly was unable to send "read
receipts" to senders who requested "read receipts" , after successfully
doing so for years. How could I tell if this 2nd account identity is the
result of malware , and if so what kind of malware could have caused
this?
Feedback will be appreciated .

P.S. I also posted this question on the Thunder Bird forums.But no
replies.
Thanks.

Thanks.
--
your friend,
Larry


"Michael Santovec" wrote:

Is this an e-mail account provided by your ISP? Some ISP's as part of
the installation automatically configure an e-mail account for you. The
the account is created as a result of running some ISP troubleshooting.
I've seen quite a few people who end up with an "(1)" account.

It's probably Not any malware.

You can just delete the account that you are not using.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



"leoliver" wrote in message
...

Hi Everyone,

Today I
downloaded
and set-up the latest Thunderbird version on my WinXP Pro SP3 computer
. I
plan to delete my Yahoo e-mail , and just use Outlook Express and
Thunder
Bird .
When I clicked to import my e-mail settings from Outlook Express 6 ,
I saw
that 2-profiles had been imported , my profile and another account
identity
that I never created and I knew nothing about !
The other account identity is listed as (1) account , which has the
same POP
address as mine . Also the other account identity has a full first and
last
name , a SMTP address and a e-mail address. I have never seen this
account
before Thunderbird imported it from some where?
My concern now is that this 2nd account identity , could be the result
of
malware or someone hacking in to my computer . I know that Windows
Identities
keeps creating a "main identity" even after I keep removing it. And
about
6-months ago Outlook Express suddenly was unable to send "read
receipts" to
senders who requested "read receipts" , after successfully doing so
for years.
How could I tell if this 2nd account identity is the result of malware
, and
if so what kind of malware could have caused this?
Feedback will be appreciated .
P.S. I also posted this question on the Thunder Bird forums.But no
replies.
Thanks.
--
your friend,
Larry

Yeah, I did post 2-subjects in one post. My mistake.
Now for my having 2 e-mail accounts ..............
I had a Yahoo e-mail account before I had a computer and used public
computers only. So after I purchased a computer , which came with Outlook
Express , and created a OE 6 account I still continued to use my Yahoo e-mail
account. And still do.
But I decided to continue my Yahoo account . Some folks send me e-mail
via Yahoo and some via my cox.net account by OE 6. If my home computer ever
goes on the blink, I could still use my Yahoo account with a public computer.
To answer your question about using 2 e-mail accounts , it's just "force
of habit".
The way I always did the e-mail thing.
Now for Thunderbird , I installed it to see if Thunderbird is better than
Outlook Express. Because of some of the problems I had with OE 6. At first I
thought Thunderbird was better than OE 6. Thunderbird now seems better that
OE 6 with sending return read receipts . BUT I then discovered that OE 6 is
better than Thunderbird when it comes to creating message rules for e-mails.
So for the test between Thunderbird and OE 6 , at this moment I would
rate them as about even. Which does say alot for OE 6 , since it is older
than Thunderbird.
--
your friend,
Larry


"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

[quoted reply edited for legibility]

I plan to delete my Yahoo e-mail , and just use Outlook Express and
ThunderBird .

Why both, if I may ask?

OE File | Identities | Manage identities: How many identities are listed
here, what are their names, and which is selected as the default?

Now use OE File | Switch identities to open each identity, in turn: Which is
the one you've been using lately and what is its name?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

leoliver wrote:
Today I downloaded
and set-up the latest Thunderbird version on my WinXP Pro SP3 computer . I
plan to delete my Yahoo e-mail , and just use Outlook Express and Thunder
Bird .

When I clicked to import my e-mail settings from Outlook Express 6 , I saw
that 2-profiles had been imported , my profile and another account
identity
that I never created and I knew nothing about !

The other account identity is listed as (1) account , which has the same
POP
address as mine . Also the other account identity has a full first and
last
name , a SMTP address and a e-mail address. I have never seen this account
before Thunderbird imported it from some where?

My concern now is that this 2nd account identity , could be the result of
malware or someone hacking in to my computer . I know that Windows
Identities keeps creating a "main identity" even after I keep removing it.

And about 6-months ago Outlook Express suddenly was unable to send "read
receipts" to senders who requested "read receipts" , after successfully
doing so for years. How could I tell if this 2nd account identity is the
result of malware , and if so what kind of malware could have caused this?
Feedback will be appreciated .

P.S. I also posted this question on the Thunder Bird forums.But no
replies.
Thanks.