Darn Malware
Published on January 14, 2009 By WeatherBound In Personal Computing

I have vista and was running One-Care Anti virus and firewall.  Some how a virus came into my system.

I have uninstalled One-Care and installed Avast Antivirus software that has a boot scan. I did the boot scan and it found 5 viruses on my system. Avast took care of those. I installed Comodo firewall just because i think it better to have a firewall installed.

I then Installed MalwareByts Anti malware soft-wear and it found one attack. And deleted it.

 

So far all sounds good but

I am still receiving messages in my Email saying that my email i sent did not go thrue and gives me the email addresses where it was supposed to go. I do not Email very much and all these addresses where not sent by me.

I will also add that i did try Ad-Aware, Spy-blaster and Avg and others and all say everything is Good.

I am still getting theses could not be delivered emails that i did not send. when i look at the date the error message says the recent date of today.....

Has any one run in to this? If so how long does it take for those could not be delivered emails to get out of the Email system?

I will tell you it has been since Friday since all scans have been showing up with no viruses.

If you have had this virus. Let me know what you did to get rid of it.

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks


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on Jan 21, 2009

If this is true, Jim you deserve the "Helper of The Year Award"!

 

 

on Jan 21, 2009

If this is true, Jim you deserve the "Helper of The Year Award"!

I agree with that. and Yrag deserves one too. It may not show it in the forums but Yrag has been sending me pms the whole time.

Thanks to the both of you.

 

Jrag, 

When i get the time i will send you a report if scans have any errors.

 

Jim,

I am convinced that the emails are the virus in its self. They will be deleted as soon as i get them and hope that they will go away soon.

It make sense since my computer is not slowing down.

Having said that. I am still puzzled on why the backup and restore keeps on showing up on my start menu. And that is even after i have that option turned off.

 

To all who read this,

Any mail that you did not send and you get a message from mail demon or any others out their. do not open them or if they have a attachment connected to them. They are viruses ready to invade you computer. Its a virus trying to pretend that its from the real mail demon. also Mail Demon will never have a attachment.

I will tell you that i did not open the attachment but did read the mail.

on Jan 21, 2009

Weatherbound....if no more emails come, you might just be done with it.

Let us know please. 

on Jan 21, 2009

If this is true, Jim you deserve the "Helper of The Year Award"!

If it is true, my reward will be in knowing that I helped a friend to get his PC fixed. No other reward needed. Here's to hoping it works! 

on Jan 21, 2009

Jim,

The stinger found nothing.

on Jan 21, 2009

Jim,

The stinger found nothing.
  

on Jan 21, 2009

Just curious, but have you gone to the HJT forums at all? I've asked a few times, but still don't know

on Jan 22, 2009

Tailgirl, I have gone there. Very long and slow process. So i have not put a log in there. But I did read a lot and found some same problems with other out there and followed what they where saying to do.

Update

So far no new emails have come in. And the backup and restore has not showed up for a while.

 

Jim I am happy that it did not find anything.

 I really believe that the emails are fake from a virus Mail demon. and are really pounding me hard to open a attachment.

 

on Jan 22, 2009

I really believe that the emails are fake from a virus Mail demon. and are really pounding me hard to open a attachment.

I hope you are correct.

on Jan 22, 2009

That would be a great end to the story, wouldn't it.

Jim: Gimme back the trophy.

on Jan 22, 2009

 just noticed somthing on the the backup and restore poping up. It pops up on start menue when i open control panel. I do not hit anything else. but click on control panel and its there.

on Jan 22, 2009

That's the thing Weatherbound, it does take a while, but if you had stayed there, your problems would be gone now, instead we have pages of stuff you wouldn't have had to go through, had you just followed what they had to say, but it's your choice buddy

I'd just hate to see you go through a needless format

on Jan 22, 2009

IF you are prepared, a format is no so hard, and it makes your machine like new again. Even restores that new PC smell....not. But it really is easy, IF you're prepared, and as I said before, I do it twice a year, just to have that new PC feel. The quickness comes back. Ohhh, I can feel it now...lol. I, too, hope you don't have to do it.

on Jan 22, 2009

Jim: Gimme back the trophy.

Never took it anyway....I left it right where you put it...lol.  

on Jan 22, 2009

PuterDudeJim
Jim: Gimme back the trophy.

Never took it anyway....I left it right where you put it...lol.  

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