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Subject: [OM] Re: OT spammer finds email address(?)
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:20:21 -0400
Maybe the Trojan horse is a human Trojan horse inside Microsoft/Hotmail 
selling your email addresses.

Chuck Norcutt

Jeff Keller wrote:

> I sent a test email from one of my hotmail email accounts to an almost never 
> used hotmail account to make sure it hadn't been shut down. The next day a 
> spammer has an email with the subject
> "Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)" In the inbox of the never used 
> account.
> 
> It seems unlikely that I have a virus or trojan horse on the computer I used 
> to send the email, but the coincidence between sending the first email and 
> receiving the possibly only non-Microsoft spam in the account is unsettling. 
> The computer is running a corporate version of McAffe antivirus. There is 
> also a employer installed security agent that is supposed to block suspect 
> activity.
> 
> It looks like Spybot S&D got removed at some point. After reinstalling it 
> and performing a scan, the system has a clean report other than a few 
> tracking cookies. Other than Spybot are there any strongly recommended free 
> software or other ways to scan my PC?
> 
> TIA,
> -jeff
> 
> 
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