Re: [OT] How to know if it is a virus / trojan and which one ??

[Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 06:29:30PM -0000, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
>
>   I have a friend with a PC in his business who has a problem - today
his
> email application Outlook Express on XP  is sending out an email from
three
> weeks previously to 2 contacts (one who was the orignal recipient
& one
> other - this 2nd recipent is constant). OE is sending thousands of
copies of
> this email repeatedly but just to these two same contacts. The sent
emails
> are not appearing in the Outbox or Sent items folder. He has full
installed
> and has up to date Norton Antivius and has run that across the PC with
no
> detections. He has also tried a couple of reliable (legitimate) trojan
app
> detectors and these have come back negative. Any ideas - or
suggestions on
> what to try ??  I really don't know how to determine if there is such
a
> known virus - and I feel if it was known then Norton or these Trojan
> detectors should be picking it up anyway.

Sounds like theMyDoom/Novarg virus to me, that's the one doing the rounds
at the moment. I've been spammed with thousands of the bloody things, as
well as rejection messages from servers, returning mail to my spoofed email
addresses....

Any recent Virus software should be able to detect that for you ...


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