My e-mails (OE) have been innundated lately with emails that are a file attachment. The "from" is sometimes a corrupted form of the name of people we know and are in our e-mail address book. I am wondering if all these person's computers are infected with a worm (?) or is it in our computer that is infected and sending us these e-mails from our own address book. Any suggestions?

DD

Hi DD
If it is from your email box check first your "sent mail" box there may be a clue there?

I had somebody swipe my address the other week and I "posted" many emails off this address in an hour (about 100,nearly got a warning off the ISP )
Only noticed this while checking my old sent mail.
Remedy: Change password (rotate them?) every other week and don't use an autologin

Moving on... I Posted a free virus checker can you download and run this and see if anything abnormal is posted? Copy and paste the list here.

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp(puts a button on your IE toolbar)

Some one may know the removal method if there is a bad version present.

The 3rd possibility is Malware of the Keylogger variety I think the Adaware program will spot this and delete it. Will post the download address if you want to check this out?

Looking further ahead,The best protection is restricting access to OE via Spyware by Downloading Spywareblaster or SpyBot
and enabling a Firewall (Some free ones to try)
But first find the cause of this prob. and rectify it
It is called spoofing when you see your own address being sent around in a corrupt form. Not a virus, possibly been keylogged? ( via spyware) run Adaware program scan ASAP and delete findings also Delete Cookies and Temp Files. Install SpyBot or Spywareblaster enable
all links to prevent any more of these pests from getting a Hold.
Means manual log ons & and Slow webpage load But normal speed next time

I ran HOUSECALL and it found BAGLE.AH in Progamfiles\commonfiles (38 infected) and Webshare (19 infected). I suspect that my husband opened one of those suspicious e-mails last night because the files were all created on the 26th at 8:01 pm, just the time when he would have been checking e-mails.

Now I need to know how to desinfect those files. I went into safe mode and eliminated the ones I could find but I am afraid that the problem may be deeper than that. Is there a free program that I can use. I used Sophos to get rid of Netsky.P but I don't think they have anything for Bagle.

I have been deleting the temp files every few days and manually cleaning out the cookies at the same time (ever since the problem with Netsky.P). There isn't anything unusual going on in the "sent item." I have also put "do not download" for all attachments. What a nuisance!

DD

DD
There is a removal link for Bagal.AH
on this link .Have to do some digging as well and read through the Stats
According to this page, this variation is quite new (July)

www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/encyclopedia/overview.aspx?IdVirus=49863&sind=0
Will post shortly on the other Pest

The Webshare files are to do with the Webshare toolbar which could have been half deleted?
www.handyarchive.com/Internet/Search-Tools/519-A-WebShare-Meta-Finder.html
Download and install it then go into Add remove programs(Control Panel) and see if there is an uninstall link there OR..on the Start Menu?...OR...in the folder that the program unzipped to? It'll be in one of these locations