I have a dial-up internet connection and I find that my mailbox gets jammed
up receiving unwanted news bulletins from Microsoft. apart from getting
broadband which is too expensive for a recreational home-user what can I do ?
I also cannot get updates to download without error message 8024402C which
tells me to choose a LAN setting which I can't do on dial-up.

You can unsubscribe from email lists but if the bulletins are what I think
they are, you are on some virus spammers list. If your email provider offers
spam filtering, enable it.

As for the updates, you can change the dialup setting to use LAN when you
use dialup, the only issue is it won't hang up (disconnect) automatically if
you are idle etc. However, that may not be the fix you'll need. Are you
using a firewall? That seems to be one cause - other causes and possible
fixes are listed he http://www.updatexp.com/0x8024402c.html

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"Mayomagic" wrote in message
...
I have a dial-up internet connection and I find that my mailbox gets jammed
up receiving unwanted news bulletins from Microsoft. apart from getting
broadband which is too expensive for a recreational home-user what can I
do ?
I also cannot get updates to download without error message 8024402C which
tells me to choose a LAN setting which I can't do on dial-up.

Mayomagic wrote:

I have a dial-up internet connection and I find that my mailbox gets
jammed up receiving unwanted news bulletins from Microsoft. apart
from getting broadband which is too expensive for a recreational
home-user what can I do ? I also cannot get updates to download
without error message 8024402C which tells me to choose a LAN setting
which I can't do on dial-up.

Microsoft doesn't send unwanted news bulletins. If you're getting bulletins
that appear to come from Microsoft and they have attachments, they're
viruses. Microsoft doesn't send updates by email. If they're bulletins
like the security bulletin that tell you what updates are being released in
a particular month, you must have subscribed to them originally. The bottom
of that mesage will contain instructions on how to unsubscribe via your
Passport account.
--
Brian Tillman

"Mayomagic" wrote in message
...
I have a dial-up internet connection and I find that my mailbox gets
jammed
up receiving unwanted news bulletins from Microsoft. apart from
getting
broadband which is too expensive for a recreational home-user what can
I do ?
I also cannot get updates to download without error message 8024402C
which
tells me to choose a LAN setting which I can't do on dial-up.


If they are truly Microsoft bulletins then you subscribed to them
somehow. There should be a link at the bottom to unsubscribe. It
didn't work? Expect a minimum of a 3-week delay before they update
their mailing list.