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Email Problems - sends spam to all my contacts

Paul Tergat · 2009-03-20 21:17:03

Think I've posted in the right forum, just looking for some help. Every couple of days I've found that an email (spam one) is being sent to every contact in my hotmail account. This is seriously annoying me and I'm not sure how I can solve the problem. I've run my Sophos anti-virus and that's detected nothing. I ran spybot…

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20-03-2009 10:17pm

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Paul Tergat

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Think I've posted in the right forum, just looking for some help.

Every couple of days I've found that an email (spam one) is being sent to every contact in my hotmail account. This is seriously annoying me and I'm not sure how I can solve the problem.

I've run my Sophos anti-virus and that's detected nothing. I ran spybot and removed any of the rubbish it found.

The problem is still here and I have no idea what to do now.

Cheers in advance

Paul

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#2 23-03-2009 2:13pm
aidan_walsh

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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055274237

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#3 25-03-2009 2:00pm
DeepBlue

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aidan_walsh wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055274237

Thought it might be a good idea to follow that sticky after reading this thread.
Alas as soon as I double-clicked on The_Comedian.exe it crashed with this:

and immediately after I got this warning:

:eek:

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#4 26-03-2009 12:37am
ActorSeeksJob

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go on with the other steps

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