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Pop-up requesting internet password

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Paddyray

Flightless Bird
Just recently every few minutes I receive a pop-up with the above title
requesting I sign in with he following information

Server - pop3.ukonline.co.uk

User name- rthomp151

password *************

The server is ukonline a company I moved away from some 3 years ago. If I
cancel the pop-up it just returns a few minutes later. What do I do?
 
D

Dan

Flightless Bird
"Paddyray" <Paddyray@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E11F5F55-E3B3-4A18-9FB5-C0DD78851894@microsoft.com...
> Just recently every few minutes I receive a pop-up with the above title
> requesting I sign in with he following information
>
> Server - pop3.ukonline.co.uk
>
> User name- rthomp151
>
> password *************
>
> The server is ukonline a company I moved away from some 3 years ago. If I
> cancel the pop-up it just returns a few minutes later. What do I do?
>


I would guess that the popup is from some software configured to check for
new email, and that UK Online have finally removed your account (my Plus.net
email account was still active 4 years after I left them!).

You're going to have to do some digging to find out what's doing it. It
won't be Internet Explorer though, which is the group you've posted to. What
is the title of the popup box you see?

--
Dan
 
T

Twayne

Flightless Bird
In news:E11F5F55-E3B3-4A18-9FB5-C0DD78851894@microsoft.com,
Paddyray <Paddyray@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:

> Just recently every few minutes I receive a pop-up with the
> above title requesting I sign in with he following
> information


What title? I see no "title" above.

>
> Server - pop3.ukonline.co.uk
>
> User name- rthomp151
>
> password *************


It will be either OE6 or your ISP causing that popup as a
rule. I don't know why OE does it, but as a rule, supplying
the correct password stops it from repeating.
>
> The server is ukonline a company I moved away from some 3
> years ago. If I cancel the pop-up it just returns a few
> minutes later. What do I do?


OK, you've been gone from that company for some 3 years? Have
you been checking mail there anyway? If so, even if you didn't
realize you were checking mail for that ISP, it could be that
they have just finally deleted your account. It's not unusual
for such things to remain active for a long time after
leaving. I have an old web site I deleted and notified them I
was leaving 5 years ago and it's still alive! The only thing
on it is a notice to where the site moved to, and it's still
working. I can't make any changes to it, but the site still
works.

I'm betting that e-mail account is still active on your
computer:
In OE, go to Tools; Accounts.
Look for the entry for that old site; it might still be there.
If it is:
-- Select the old account
-- Click Remove from the column of buttons to the right.
-- OK your way out.
It shouldn't bother any longer.

Please let us know how/whether this works out for you.

HTH,

Twayne`
 
V

VanguardLH

Flightless Bird
Paddyray wrote:

> Just recently every few minutes I receive a pop-up with the above title
> requesting I sign in with he following information
>
> Server - pop3.ukonline.co.uk
>
> User name- rthomp151
>
> password *************
>
> The server is ukonline a company I moved away from some 3 years ago. If I
> cancel the pop-up it just returns a few minutes later. What do I do?


So why did you leave an account defined in your unidentified e-mail client
that no longer exists?
 
P

Paddyray

Flightless Bird
Twayne
Sorry for the delay but I have been away for a few days.
Thank you you have solved my problem


"Twayne" wrote:

> In news:E11F5F55-E3B3-4A18-9FB5-C0DD78851894@microsoft.com,
> Paddyray <Paddyray@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
>
> > Just recently every few minutes I receive a pop-up with the
> > above title requesting I sign in with he following
> > information

>
> What title? I see no "title" above.
>
> >
> > Server - pop3.ukonline.co.uk
> >
> > User name- rthomp151
> >
> > password *************

>
> It will be either OE6 or your ISP causing that popup as a
> rule. I don't know why OE does it, but as a rule, supplying
> the correct password stops it from repeating.
> >
> > The server is ukonline a company I moved away from some 3
> > years ago. If I cancel the pop-up it just returns a few
> > minutes later. What do I do?

>
> OK, you've been gone from that company for some 3 years? Have
> you been checking mail there anyway? If so, even if you didn't
> realize you were checking mail for that ISP, it could be that
> they have just finally deleted your account. It's not unusual
> for such things to remain active for a long time after
> leaving. I have an old web site I deleted and notified them I
> was leaving 5 years ago and it's still alive! The only thing
> on it is a notice to where the site moved to, and it's still
> working. I can't make any changes to it, but the site still
> works.
>
> I'm betting that e-mail account is still active on your
> computer:
> In OE, go to Tools; Accounts.
> Look for the entry for that old site; it might still be there.
> If it is:
> -- Select the old account
> -- Click Remove from the column of buttons to the right.
> -- OK your way out.
> It shouldn't bother any longer.
>
> Please let us know how/whether this works out for you.
>
> HTH,
>
> Twayne`
>
>
>
>
> .
>
 
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