Re: automatic unwanted email sent on startup

From: Max M.Wachtel III (maxpro4u_at_nomail.afraid.org)
Date: 12/26/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 12:27:58 -0500

Robin wrote:
> Firstly, thank you to those who kindly answered my last query on 24
> Dec.
>
> When I start one of my user desktops I get a message in a small grey
> rectangle over the system tray from AVG (free edition) that an email
> is being sent to a hotmail address(always the same one). As soon as I
> saw it I swtched off. Using other user desktops it doesn't appear.
>
> AVG doesn't see any virus in it and I have run several virus and
> spyware checkers, including Trend Micro Sysclean, Pest Patrol, Spybot,
> and Adaware. They show my system as clean. But if I try to enter the
> desktop in question---same problem.
>
> Any help welcomed.
>
> TIA
>
> Robin
Log on using the profile in question.Run the scanners again.

Download Spyware Blaster here: (enable all protection)
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Run a couple of online scanners (pick a different one than your main AV):

BitDefender:
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php

Norton:
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/home.asp?errorCode=3&langid=ie&venid=sym&plfid=23&pkj=XHPGJRSOMVZGYYTZXPE&bhcp=1

Panda:
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm

eTrust:
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx

House Call:
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp

If the previous do not solve your problems:
Download Bazooka here:
http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/

Download SwatIt here:
http://swatit.org/

Download KL-Detector here
http://dewasoft.com/privacy/kldetector.htm

Download CWShredder here
http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshredder_download.html

Download HijackThis here:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html
Install, run and save the log that is created. Don’t let it fix anything
yet!
You can find forums to post the log to have it analyzed here:
http://tomcoyote.org/hjt/

Here is a scanner that uses the Kaspersky engine-
Download eScan here:
http://www.mwti.net/antivirus/free_utilities.asp
Rename the downloaded file escan.zip and extract (with a zip program) to
C:\Downloads, which you will have to create. Run the updater
(kavupd.exe) and then run eScan (mwavscan.exe).

Download TDS here:
http://tds.diamondcs.com.au/

-max 

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