Web User - UK (2019-11-27)

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Alwayscheck yourSpam
folder
Iwas interested toread your ‘Blockspam
messagesand callsforever’featurein
Issue 486, butIwas surprisedyou didn’t
mentionhowtodeal with so-called ‘false
positives’ –when perfectlyharmlessand
sometimesimportant messagesare
wrongly classified asspambyyouremail
provider and
filtered intoyour
Spam folder
without ever
reaching your
Inbox.
Ihaveoften
had emailsthatfailtomaterialise,despite
the sender insistingtheyhavebeen sent.
Oncheckingmy Spamfolder in Gmail,lo
and behold theyare there, completewith
awarningacross thetop.Clicking
‘Report as not spam’restores the
messagetoi ts rightful place in my Inbox.
Iwould recommendthateveryone
checks their Spamfolder regularly,
becauseyoudon’tknowwhatmessages
youmay have missed. Gmailgenerally
does avery good job of identifying
which emails arejunk and which aren’t,
but it doesn’t always get it right.
PeterAldred, via email

Blockscamcallsusing 1572
Your ne ws story in Issue 487, ‘New
warning over ‘Microsofttech-support
scams’,reminded me ofasimple solution

tothisproblem.Only thismorning, I

received acallon myhouse phone

remindingmethatmyAmazon Prime

account was due for payment andit

would be closedif Ifailedtodeal withit.

Idonot havean Amazon Prime

account, so Iput down thereceiver and

phoned 1 57 2, which putme throughto

BT’sCall Protect number-blocking

service.It’svery easytouseand Iam

surereaders willfind this useful.

Eric Page,viaemail

Pleaseinclude moreLinux

appsinWebUser

Ihavebeen aLinux Mint userfor around

12 years, and aWebUser

reader for longerthan that.

So Ihope IknowwhatI’m

talking about when Isay

thatLinux userscan be left

feelingshortchangedby

WebUser.

Althou gh much of your magazine

focuses directlyon the web,whereit

doesn’t matterwhichoperatingsystem

youuse,somesections arealmosttotally

Windows-based. For example,int heBest

Free Softwaresection, Linux applications

areonly referenced if thereisaLinux

versionof aWindowsprogram. How

difficultwould it betoatleastreference

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4

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Quiz Answers: Issue 488

Thepen ismightier

thanthesword

Don’tblowyour

owntrumpet

Curiositykilled

thecat

Don’tcast pearls

before swine

Afooland his money

aresoonparted

Money doesn’t

growontrees

I

thought Ishould warn readers abou

Kaspersky’sautomatic licence-

renewalprocess.

When you signupfor anew

antivirus subscriptionfrom Kaspersky

youareaskedif youwould like

auto-renewal, so you’renot left

vulnerable byyourantivirus protectio

going outof date.Thisis fine and

works well, butwhattheydon’ttell

youisthattheywillalwayscharge

youthe fullprice,whichatthe time

of writing is £39.99 for Kaspersky

Total Security.

Manypeople will justlet the

auto-renewalprocessrun year after

Don’t get ripped off by auto-renewal

out thinkingto checkhow

prog ramwould cost if they

tthemselves asrequired.

earchingtoo hard,youcan

licen ce manually through

y’sown websitefor £2 7.99.

effortlesssaving of £12.

ughtmeout once, so I

ed to Kasperskyand they

me the difference, but how

pleare getting bamboozled

nowwait forthe reminder

en renewthe li cencemyself.

ountdown emails so it’s not

oremember.

AlistairM, via email

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