Possible virus infection, not sure

[kabboom89]

Just the other day, I downloaded something. Within this there was probably a virus. Ever since it was downloaded, I've been receiving like this message that says: A program is attempting to send the followoing e-mail message on your behalf: (some email address@somehost.com). And then at the bottom it says: Would you like to send the message? two buttons: Send, Don't send.

And there's like a ton of these. For a lot of different email addresses. It keeps goin' on and I have to click it so many times. After a certain number of "Don't Send" clicks, it dissapears, and it comes back after like, 3 minutes or so.

One time I accidently clicked send on one of these, and I checked the Microsoft outlook express outbox and the message said something like: hey check out my new secret girlfriend or something. It had an attachment to it, but I dared not open it.

I desperately need help with this, and if you would provide assistance, I thank you greatly in advance.

[PresterJohn]

use the online virus scanner here:

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

[kabboom89]

I just used the pandasoftware.com scanner, and now it's stopped for a while, but I'm unsure of it being gone or not, because on the report it said that one virus could not be cured. So I hope that it's fixed, and thank you for your input. Appreciated.

[John Prophet]

do you have a spyware scanner?

most everyone here runs adaware 6 from www.lavasoftusa.com ...helps a lot with trojans and page hijackers and that sort of thing.....you can run a virus scan and it be clean but then run adaware and find 100 instances of "spyware" etc.

get it, update it, run it....you'll be happy

JP

[kabboom89]

Oh yeah I've done that one before, the lavasoft AdAware one. I just accidently deleted it one day. And I lost the link incidently. So, thanks for the link! Haha


OH man this smiley is pretty funny:

[Therave]

Spybot search and distroy is quite a good little bit of software too for removal of spywear... :0) multiple places to download it from and its free.

the rave

[Starfury_2260]

you should use spybot and adaware. they both find things that the other cant. plus update them before scanning.

DONT RUN THINGS THAT MIGHT HAVE A VIRUS.
get the free AVG antivirus and check for updates and then scan.
If you think something might have a virus right click it and click Test by AVG (which will appear once you install AVG antivirus) to see if it does. If AVG finds a virus and cant repair it then put it in the virus vault, unless it's an important system file (then i dont know what you can do).