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Thanks, Helen and ceebs.  As far as Spybot and AVG say, my machine is clean and I don't know how else to insure my addresses are now safe, after changing passwords, etc.

Do you know any other steps, please?

Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.

by metavision on Tue Oct 14th, 2008 at 04:40:10 PM EST
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have the two programmes shown anything on your machine?

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Oct 14th, 2008 at 04:46:10 PM EST
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Nothing at all, which is very surprising. I´m going to run Spybot again now.


Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.
by metavision on Tue Oct 14th, 2008 at 05:09:56 PM EST
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It's not necessarily something thats currently infecting your machine, Looking at the email it fired off it could well be a single shot email harvester that has wiped itself after throwing itself onwards. I've thrown a couple of questions over to some contacts who hopefully will get back to me tonight or tomorrow if its a known problem with a simple solution.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Oct 14th, 2008 at 05:55:51 PM EST
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Thank you.  It's a relief to check with somebody.

Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.
by metavision on Tue Oct 14th, 2008 at 06:05:52 PM EST
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What does this mean, ceebs?  Fixed and immunized, but I´ve never seen anything like this:

Problem:
"Microsoft.WindowsSecurityCenter.AntiVirusOverride"

Kind:
"1 entries Security"

Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.

by metavision on Tue Oct 14th, 2008 at 06:02:55 PM EST
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Solved: Microsoft.WindowsSecurityCenter.AntiVirusOverride - Tech Support Guy Forums
These are just warnings that the Security Center alerts that would normally warn you if your anti-virus and firewall have been turned off or disabled for any reason, have been unchecked so that they do not warn you.

If you chose not to be alerted and turned those things off in the Security Center intentionally, then you can have SpyBot put these on Ignore.
Otherwise, something or someone has changed those settings and that should be investigated further.

You will find them under the Security Center in the Control Panel.
On the left-hand side, you will see five options.
Click on the last one "Change The Way Security Center Alerts Me" and you will find three choices there.
If there are no check marks in the boxes, that means that the alerts have been turned off.


Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Oct 14th, 2008 at 06:14:23 PM EST
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OK, so that should be no problem because I'm covered anyway.  It is reactivated now.

Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.
by metavision on Tue Oct 14th, 2008 at 06:41:21 PM EST
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metavision, do you read your email on the web (in your browser), or with some email application that downloads it to your machine? If the former, the simplest solution would be to open a new email address -- the old one will remain known to spambots anyway.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Tue Oct 14th, 2008 at 06:31:40 PM EST
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I read it on the web and yes, I have several addresses available that I am trying to reorganize, but it is not easy to change an ´identity´ built over 13 years for many different functions, just because some __ fing __ miscreant ___ wants to cause heck.  I doubt they think they can sell ´electronic products´ in this way.  

I just hope that it has caused no inconvenience to anyone, but there are people and sources I will never reach again, or may consider me spam.

Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.

by metavision on Tue Oct 14th, 2008 at 07:02:39 PM EST
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to me it does look more like a trawl for addresses, thats my first instinct at looking through the email headers on the recieved mail that your account sent me.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Oct 14th, 2008 at 07:54:53 PM EST
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