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E MAIL HIJACK
a visitor to planet earth Started conversation Dec 18, 2004
Some program has hijacked the email account on one of the users on my computer. It is an AOL account, and the program is sending out unsolicited emails to people advertising medecines. I rang AOL and they said to run their spyware program, but that has detected nothing.
Anyone help??? We have AOL spyware prog, zonealarm and adaware progs on our computer.
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Zak T Duck Posted Dec 18, 2004
You could try also running Spybot Search and Destroy, see if that catches anything AdAware and AOHell's effort have missed.
Failing that, could you either post up here or email a HijackThis logfile?
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Jim Lynn Posted Dec 18, 2004
I'd also advise running a fully up to date anti-virus program. It sounds like a trojan horse you've got, which might not be found by anti spyware programs.
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