I Need Help

[houston]

my pc is sending e mails on its own, i know cos norton is keepin coming up for scanning outgoing e mails! ive got it giving mloads of warnings, did a scan and found a few viruses, wiped them but its still doin it, help!!!!

obviously if anyone gets an email off me, PLEASE DONT OPEN IT!!! i dont know what it could contain!

[martin_longbow]

try updating your virus checker

do you know the names of the virus you had, check norton or computer assocciates for definitions or removal tools.

do you have a firewall and is it working

[houston]

all viruses have been removed, doin another scan and its already picked up 2 more! virus checker is bang up to date, but i dont run a firewall!

[houston]

got it to stop, but now its got me thinkin i need a firewall, any suggestions? im runnin norton antivirus so would norton firewall make sense?

[armoredfist2002]

got it to stop, but now its got me thinkin i need a firewall, any suggestions? im runnin norton antivirus so would norton firewall make sense?

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Yes it would make sense to use norton firewall, but you don't have to.

you could also try mcafee, which i'm finding better than norton at the moment.

don't know many others

[sotal]

BlackIce is a good firewall,

ZoneAlarm is an OK firewall (and free)

Kerio do a decent Firewall

The Problem with software firewalls is it still leaves it down to the user, a decent hardware firewall can be the best option

[MarkMcQ]

Install Spybot and Adaware and look for any spyware or trojans on your system. Norton 'should' have picked them up, but since the mails are still sending, try those 2 progs. At least one should find the problem.

A firewall won't be a good solution. If you wanted to stop the problem, it would require blocking all your outgoing mail.

Although in a general area, definitely install one. In this day and age there's so many virii and malicious trojans out there that just prey on unprotected PC's.

Spybot link

Ad-Aware Link

[sotal]

Microsoft Antispyware Beta is excellent for removing all the nasty spyware.

Personally if it isn't completely gone after an hour or so of messing I would backup anything important and wipe the machine and reinstall - just to be safe. Then scan the backups before allowing anything back.