I use Outlook 2003 as my email system. I have caught some sort of virus that sends out a ton of messages from my email address and other addresses linked to my domain name. I also receive an impressive number of infected emails. I use Norton 2005. Although Norton stops infected messages to come in, the virus is still there and keeps sending out messages on my name. I would be very greatful if anyone could help. Regards Jim

Are you sure it is your computer that is sending the emails and not another computer that has your address is listed in the address book? Using the addresses in the address book is the common way for virus/trojan/worm infections to spread. When the virus attacks the system it immediately starts sending out emails to everyone listed in the address book. It is not your computer that has an infection, it is a friend or anyone that has your address in their addreess book.

I don't know if emails are actually sent out from my computer. I do know that sometimes I receive a spam from another email address of myself (I have several email accounts on the same computer). Also, I get quite a few emails from webmasters complaining that I have sent them infected messages. If emails are sent from my computer, there is no trace in the "sent item" folder. Also, I don't see Norton scaning messages to send.

Then it is not you. Unfortunately there is nothing you can do about it, except [et you friends know that someone has a problem and it is not you. It is called "spoofing".

Thank you very much for your help. You guys are cool

Have you removed all spy and adware? They can cause alot of problems and it may be good to do a check on that. It won't hurt. friendly and helpful for better computing in all areas *smile*

Try this simple trick, place Aardvark.wormdetector in your address book, and as it has a . instead of @ it is an invalid address, so if a virus/worm etc tries to send e-mails from your address book it is the first entry in your address book and Outlook throws out an error message of an invalid address. If I dont know, somebody will. If any advice helps, please post back as it might help others.