Re: Outlook Express Hijacked

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From: Malke (malke_at_nospoonnotreally.com)
Date: 03/05/04 

Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 06:19:33 -0800

savesomeup wrote:

> When I open Outlook Express it prompts me to register for
> a free email account with some free email web site. I can
> read my emails, just can't send any. I have ran Ad-aware
> and this still did not fix the problem. I would
> appriciatre any feedback you can give me!

You were on the right track, but you need to do more. In addition to
scanning with Ad-aware, also get Spybot S&D from www.security.kolla.de.
Since both programs are free, it is good to run them both since they
complement each other. It is important to update these programs before
running them, and is most useful to run them in Safe Mode because most
spyware won't be running there. You might also want to try HijackThis
and CWShredder. You can get those programs and learn more about them
from www.spywareinfo.com. Check out the forums there for even more
help. And of course, you should be running a current (post-2002 version
using updated definitions) antivirus.

Malke 

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