Multiple old emails being resent??

peggydoodaa

I wonder if you guys could please help?

For some reason 12mnth old emails are being resent to people in my contact list. I'm really careful with spam emails as it's a business computer & so pretty much everything not recognised gets deleted straight away.

It happened after I received an email like this from someone else I know yesterday, but I only received 2. Apparently there are like 20 of ours going out, every 10mins :eek:

I'm currently running a virus scan, but can anyone advise how to get this to stop??

superscaper

Email client?

peggydoodaa

Using Office Outlook (Blueyonder email) if that's what you're asking?

superscaper

I'd go through the malware removal guide on this board. You may want to consider using something like Thunderbird instead. Personally I use Outlook, but I'd take Thunderbird over Outlook Express.

peggydoodaa

Thank you, i'll try it. The virus scan has just completed & found nothing.

peggydoodaa

I'm just doing a spysweeper run & then am going to download this http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/ and try it.

Problem is, I don't want to do too much as like I say it's a business computer & the business owner (my step-dad) is on holiday at the moment. I'm worried about causing more problems than solving them!

isofa

Check the outbox to see if they are being generated before being actually being sent, it's more than likely to be some sort of script or malware on your computer (which can be missed by virus checkers), follow the above advice and run the scanners such as SpyBot S+D, AdAware etc.

peggydoodaa

definately nothing in the sent items, but thanks for the heads up.

Arrgh, just noticed that all the scans only doing the C drive. We have a NAS box too, damn it, guess i'll have to re-scan that now

peggydoodaa

malware scanner has picked up a trojan downloader, now put into quarantine. Do you think it could have been this that was causing the problems?

isofa

What were the details of the trojan, name etc? It's definitely possible!

peggydoodaa

trojan-downloader.win32.agent.oj

Should I leave it in quarantine or just hit delete on the little !!!!!!?