Avast Suspicious Message

larmy16

Hoping someone can advise. I have Avast installed and have had no problems atall with it. First of all I am a techno dumbo so please forgive ignorance.

Since last night I have been bombarded with these warnings: Suspicious Message

Warning. There are too many identical emails included in application time (or words to that effect). The only boxes to click on are Continue/Dont send. I don't know what to do. They do seem to be emails regarding Sex/Casino but the recipients are all email address not related to my computer.

Any ideas??? Much appreciated.

espresso

If you don't recognise the sender simply delete these spam messages. Never open e-mail unless you know who they are from.

larmy16

Hi Espresso, thanks for the reply. These messages are not coming into my email box or anything like that. No they are Pop ups from Avast and within the box are the titles of the emails eg. Satisfy her/Be a real man/ Christmas gifts etc. I know what you mean about spam in an in box. All it says is Continue/Dont send but whatever I press, those pop ups still keep coming. It is worrying me.:o

albertross_2

Do a few scans with anti-spyware software, in case you have a mass mailing trojan

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download-free-anti-spyware/us/frt/0

http://www.superantispyware.com/download.html

http://www.bitdefender.com/site/Downloads/browseEvaluationVersion/1/42/

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad_aware_free.php

http://www.grisoft.com/doc/download-free-anti-rootkit/us/crp/0

espresso

I am not familiar with Avast but presumable it is scanning your incoming e-mails before they reach your inbox and it's asking what you want to do.

ManAtHome

Expresso - for info, Avast does check/filter outgoing mail - the pop-up is flagging more than 5 messages with same subject or attachment inside 30 seconds, so a sender virus sounds likely.

espresso

ManAtHome wrote: »

Expresso - for info, Avast does check/filter outgoing mail - the pop-up is flagging more than 5 messages with same subject or attachment inside 30 seconds, so a sender virus sounds likely.

Of course the OP would know that, if they had bothered to read the User manual that accompanies the product, or clicked on the Help button.

larmy16

Thanks for the sarcasm very helpful! I did explain that I dont understand these things and that is the reason I turned to this board for some help. I will never do so again. Enjoy your superiority in being an expert of technology!

espresso

larmy16 wrote: »

Thanks for the sarcasm very helpful! I did explain that I dont understand these things and that is the reason I turned to this board for some help. I will never do so again.

Calm down dear, it's only a discussion forum! So you will read the manual next time then.

:rolleyes:

No sarcasm, just stating the bleeding obvious. If you have a computer, you should learn how to use it. Ignorance is no excuse and you are never too old to learn and that includes reading simple instruction manuals etc.

larmy16

espresso wrote: »

Calm down dear, it's only a discussion forum! So you will read the manual next time then.

:rolleyes:



No sarcasm, just stating the bleeding obvious. If you have a computer, you should learn how to use it. Ignorance is no excuse and you are never too old to learn and that includes reading simple instruction manuals etc.

How pathetic. I thought one learnt by asking questions. You should remember what Martin says and be nice to people on here and there is no such thing as a stupid question! :rolleyes::rolleyes:

No-one else who replied to my post felt the need to point out how ignorant I was, which means that you have a need to feel superior - hope you enjoy it.