Directory Services?

[oh_my_hat]

I was looking through my Outlook settings yesterday and noticed that I have 7 Directory Services in my Internet Accounts section namely:

Bigfoot Internet Directory,
Infospace Business Directory Service,
Infospace Internet Directory Service,
Switchboard Internet Directory Service,
Verisign Internet Directory Service,
WhoWhere Internet Directory Service &
Yahoo!People Search.

Does anyone know how have these acccounts been created here and is it o.k to remove them? I am a bit concerned that these may somehow be contributing to all the spam that I receive. Thank you in advance.

 

[jim boy]

Originally posted by oh_my_hat
I was looking through my Outlook settings yesterday and noticed that I have 7 Directory Services in my Internet Accounts section namely:

Bigfoot Internet Directory,
Infospace Business Directory Service,
Infospace Internet Directory Service,
Switchboard Internet Directory Service,
Verisign Internet Directory Service,
WhoWhere Internet Directory Service &
Yahoo!People Search.

Does anyone know how have these acccounts been created here and is it o.k to remove them? I am a bit concerned that these may somehow be contributing to all the spam that I receive. Thank you in advance.

Accounts were created at installation time. The idea behind them was that we were going to get these directory services that would be a bit like a yellow pages, only more powerful. However people didn't use them and the potential for spam has killed them. They are useless and harmless, delete them if it makes you feel better.

 

[oh_my_hat]

Thanks Jim Boy.