Was Norton or MacAfee antivirus ever installed on that computer?
Most new computers come with a trial version of one of those two.

I don't quite understand why you need three different accounts in
Windows Mail to check one email account at Yahoo.
--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


<dsw32952@gmail.com> wrote in message news:up1FiKjZJHA.2084@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>I have been having similar problems but it is centered on my Yahoo account. I have set up three accounts in Windows Mail all to
>check the same email account at Yahoo. One uses the plus servers and the other two do not. The problem is usually on the first
>of the three accounts encountered when I click Send/Receive mail. I then click cancel and the other two work fine. Sometimes the
>first works fine and the 2nd or 3rd one messes up. As an odd coincidence, Since I just set up this newsgroup account and
>subscribed to this group, I can select Synchronize All and all work fine, but if I try the Send/Receive button I still get the
>error.
>
> I will try your suggestion and delete all three accounts, restart Windows Mail and then recreate the accounts. I'll report back
> the results. I do not use Norton so that is not the problem.
>
> Don
>
> "Gary VanderMolen" <Gary@NoMail.invalid> wrote in message news:%238IyFq$YJHA.1528@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> If you are sure you are you are entering the correct username and
>> password, one possible cause for that error is account corruption.
>> One thing you should try as a quick fix is to delete that corrupted
>> mail account, restart Windows Mail, then recreate that account.
>>
>> Norton Antivirus 2008 (and earlier) is among the top three troublemakers
>> for Windows Mail. Symptoms often don't surface until several months have
>> gone by, or until an update occurs.
>> First, be sure to disable its email scanning, for the reason explained here:
>> http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tuto...ning/index.htm
>>
>