What are "Bigfoot" and "four11"? Are they supposed to be in Entourage
under "Address Book [On My Computer"]? I recently noticed them in that
place and don't know how they got there. Are they spyware? Should they
be removed? If so, how? Thanks. Marsha P.S. I have Entourage 2004,
Version 11.2.3.
If you don't know what they are, you aren't using them. You can delete them
under your account settings. They are leftovers from yesteryear and I'm not
sure that all of them even work still. They are not harmful and are there
by design.
Actually they aren't contacts by design. In Entourage 2001, there were 4
public LDAP sites, including those two, under "Directory Services" in the
Tools menu. They were places you could register, and look for, email
addresses. The wild expansion of the internet, and of spam mail, overloaded
these sites. They soon became defunct. I think that Entourage X still had
one of them (Bigfoot), or maybe both, by default, and would import all of
them from 2001 if you imported your 2001 identity into X. In 2004, they
should be gone, and certainly are gone by default in new identities. (Just
possibly, you'd still find them now in Tools/Accounts/Directory Services,
after importing a 2001 or X identity.) How they might have become contacts
accidentally I can't quite say - perhaps "writeawayworks" auto-completed
them from the drop-down MRU list when sending an email, or did an "Add to
Address Book".
Anyway, they're harmless, and defunct, as mmmmark says. Just delete them
from the Address Book.
--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
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http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
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