Computing

Import / Export Email: Research Links

• Location of Outlook Express email archives
• Importing Outlook Express Emails Into Thunderbird And Evolution – this method worked well
• Installing Thunderbird on Linux
• Setting and changing email passwords – Thunderbird doesn't provide a way for a user to enter the POP/IMAP/SMTP servers password when configuring a account. ( Yep it confused me! )
• How to change Thunderbird stored password
• how to set interval to download email? – Edit > Account Settings > Server Settings  under the particular email account in questions.  Looks like everything is set to 5 minute default
• Can't delete a folder if Trash already contains a folder of the same name
• How to put copy of sent items in sent folder – Edit > Account Settings > Copy & Folder
• Email Filters
• Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.

1. how to update Thunderbird?
2. how to sort incoming email into correct folders
3. how good is the spam filter?

Summary of Effort

I had one issue with importing / transferring files over to my Ubuntu linux laptop.  One of the subfolders had many subfolders of its own and did not show up.  I imported from Outlook Express 6 (2004 ouch! ) again and copied the relevant sub archive into the right location on my linux laptop.  At that point it did not show up on Thunderbird even after a restart so I manually made a subfolder in the correct location on thunderbird and when I went into the folder all the emails showed up.  This was a little trickier than what I portrayed with that sentence.  Actually when I tried to create the folder with the same name under thunderbird it choked and said "can not do it there is already a folder with that name".  At this point I made a folder with SAMENAME-2 and then used nautilus file explorer to copy all the files over to the folder SAMENAME-2. At that point I could go back to Thunderbird and rename the folder to remove the -2.

It would have been better if Thunderbird had imported everything correctly.  This is the sort of thing that can leave you with lingering doubt.

Email Account Setup Links

• Live Mail email settings
• AOL Pop Settings

Related links

• EnigMail plugin for thunderbird
• Outlook Express Backup and restore

I ran into this problem recently.  Probably due to sorting through the registry to delete malware keys.

Research links

• Hotfix: blank add / remove program list – the easy way. However you will have an item show up in your add remove programs list corresponding to this fix.  Seems odd given it is just an edit of the registry as you will see in the manual fix page.
• Manual fix of blank add / remove programs list

Research Links

• Detailed description of how Banco do Brasil security module behave
• Process Monitor – download
• Delete the G buster plugin files by using a boot disk – 1  –  Uses Hirens boot CD  Download Hirens boot CD here ( I think …they do not make identifying affiliation easy) How to burn to CD
• G buster horrible by design uses a linux boot disk    Uses:  Trinity Rescue Linux Boot disk – still deciding if this one is kosher to use

Notes

• This module is also referred to as G Buster

Tools

• SysInternals Autoruns
• SysInternals Main Page – has presentations that appear to be very valuable.
• SysInternals Process Monitor
• Hirens boot cd  – Hirens boot cd on wikipedia
• Trinity Rescue Kit – Boot disk based on Linux

Side Notes

• Profile of cyber crime in brazil – an interesting article about how they work
• Trinity Rescue kit site uses: Bart's content management studio: Which is based on CodeCharge Studio – CodeCharge Studio on Wikipedia

Resolution

1. I tried using a 2 different boot disks but both times I could not see the file structure on the hard drive in question. 
2. Popped the hard drive out of the machine and connected it as an external drive on another box.  At this point I could see the files I needed to delete.  I deleted the GpPlugIn folder 
3. Placed the hard drive back in the original machine and ran SysInternals program: Autoruns. I hand edited the registry to delete all the keys that referred to the now deleted files. They are easy to find because they are highlighted yellow to signify that they are missing.

• How to install and use the Recovery Console in Windows XP
• It appears recovery console is essentially just what is on a boot disk

OTL ( Old Time Lister ) needs this to be able to remove the malware it finds.