Constant Sending of Spam from my address? 1

[francisk]

This may have been answered before but I'm tearing the little bit of hair I still have, out in lumps! About 5 minutes after I open MS Outlook, my system starts sending a spam email (Subject: "Latest Issue of LS Magazine Now Out") to hundreds of people that are not even in my address book. I have NAV, and my screen fills with pop-ups telling me that NAV is scanning 1 of 95 emails and then a new opo-up for every email that it has not been able to send...within a minute my screen is filled with pop-up warnings and when I delete one, there's another one behind it!
I have tried everything frim downloading and running macafee stinger, deleting all cookies, running Ad-Aware and quarantining all suspect files. As I type this it has started again and Outlook isn't even open!
I really would appreciate any advice you can give me to rid my pc of this obnoxious and pointless activity.
Thanking you,
Francis (Ireland)

 

[WizyWyg]

http://www.antivirus.com

Use the online virus scanning ot see if you are infected (sometimes McAfee doesn't pick up every single one).

Also, open your Task Manager to see what is running . If yousee a program in the lsit that isn't familiar, track it down.

Right click on your MY Computer Icon to go into Manage and see what programs are in your "start-up" sequence. If you see something that isn't familiar track it down.

 

[francisk]

Thank you...where exactly can I find which programmes are running?

 

[IFRs]

Try

http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm

for a list of processes

 

[jkmitchell56]

You could also have a look at "scotty", it checks on processes in your startup procedure under Windows.

John