melissa_momof3
12-10-2007, 12:25 PM
HELP!!
I did something real stupid. I received a MSN message from a friend asking me to check out her pictures. It was in a zip file. I briefly thought how odd that was, that it was in a zip file. I should of stopped then. But I didn't. I downloaded it. Now I can't get it to stop! It causes my virus program "symantec" to pop up warnings that it couldn't send the emails out. They come in probably 30 at a time. Then it gives a break for an odd amount of time and then tries to resend them. Each error message has a different topic in the subject line. The subjects are very disgusting and quite embarrassing. The people they are being sent to are unrecognizable. I don't know who these people are that it is trying to email. When I look in my email there are no records of anything trying to be sent in the draft, outbox, or sent files. Outlook is the only email server I use. Is this really trying to send this out to people? Or is this a program just causing havoc? How do I get rid of it? I downloaded the McAfee trial period for the full protection program, but it hasn't caught this. I found where the zip file was and deleted it. There is nothing in my add or remove files for this program. How do I find it to get rid of it? ANY advice would be so appreciated. This computer is my work and the computer I use for my college school work. My college is all online, I can't lose this computer. Please someone help me. The name of the zip file was foto-462.
Melissa
I did something real stupid. I received a MSN message from a friend asking me to check out her pictures. It was in a zip file. I briefly thought how odd that was, that it was in a zip file. I should of stopped then. But I didn't. I downloaded it. Now I can't get it to stop! It causes my virus program "symantec" to pop up warnings that it couldn't send the emails out. They come in probably 30 at a time. Then it gives a break for an odd amount of time and then tries to resend them. Each error message has a different topic in the subject line. The subjects are very disgusting and quite embarrassing. The people they are being sent to are unrecognizable. I don't know who these people are that it is trying to email. When I look in my email there are no records of anything trying to be sent in the draft, outbox, or sent files. Outlook is the only email server I use. Is this really trying to send this out to people? Or is this a program just causing havoc? How do I get rid of it? I downloaded the McAfee trial period for the full protection program, but it hasn't caught this. I found where the zip file was and deleted it. There is nothing in my add or remove files for this program. How do I find it to get rid of it? ANY advice would be so appreciated. This computer is my work and the computer I use for my college school work. My college is all online, I can't lose this computer. Please someone help me. The name of the zip file was foto-462.
Melissa