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October 10th, 2004, 15:17 PM
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IE harvesting info from Outlook?
Hi, hope this question is not redundant since I'm new.
I recently got a new laptop and upgraded all Microsoft components (IE, Office, Windows XP) to their most recent versions.
And then something very disturbing happened.
I have a Yahoo! homepage. I upgraded to their "New! Improved!" homepage appearance, using Internet Explorer. (At the same time, I had Outlook open to check my school email.)
Within a day, I had received a message in my school email account from Yahoo, welcoming me to their "New! Improved!" homepage.
I have NEVER supplied Yahoo with that email address.
All I can figure is that somehow IE allowed Yahoo to harvest my email addresss from Outlook. Does that make sense?
If this is possible, how do I stop it? Can some setting be changed in IE or regedit?
Thanks!
Dulc
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