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Name: petermhill
Date: April 4, 2004 at 11:59:25 Pacific
OS: Win XP Svs Pk 1
CPU/Ram: Celeron 2Ghz
Comment:

I keep getting messges fom Zonealarm to say that services.exe is trying to send an email. I stop it but how can I find out what is sending the messages -I suspect I have a trojan that is trying to send information.



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Name: per
Date: April 4, 2004 at 13:56:07 Pacific
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You probably have an unsent email in your email folder and it is trying to send it.


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Name: petermhill
Date: April 5, 2004 at 09:52:28 Pacific
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No thats my problem - there is nothing in my outbox, something else in my system is trying to send an email to an IP address that appears to be a porn site - to http://209.216.124.163:21 My firewall stops it but it keeps trying every now and again


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