[AT] Way OT Computer Virus question

[pga2 at hot1.net]

Most likely, you still have a "bot" program running
on your system. I recommend that you download AdAware,
Spybot Search and Destroy and possibly Spy Sweeper (if
there is still a free version) and run all of them
on your system. Fix or delete all spyware found,
including quarrantine files from your AVG. This should
take care of the problem.

Good luck,
Phil




----- Original Message -----
>From    : charlie hill <chill8 at suddenlink.net>
Sent    : Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:50:37 -0400
To      : Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject : [AT] Way OT  Computer Virus question


>About a month ago I picked up a virus.  I know when it happened.
I hit a web site with a bunch of pop ups.  In the process of clearing them a 
warning poped up on my screen warning me not to open a file.  Unfortunately 
I made an errant click (my fingers got ahead of my brain) and I opened the 
virus file.  IMMEDIATELY I started to work clearing it.  After about 4 hours 
I thought I had it.  Then the next day it was back.  I went to work on it 
again and got it cleared.
Since then I've run frequent checks with AVG free edition which was running 
when I got the virus and with other online virus checkers.  My AVG is on 
auto-update.  I also run Zone Alarm Pro firewall.  Somehow Zone Alarm got 
corrupted.  I deleted it and downloaded a newer version.  Zone Alarm and AVG 
say my system is clean.  One online virus checker found the virus again but 
showed in a quaranteen file.  My system at this point is running fine BUT  I 
keep getting messages like the one below in my e-mail.
Some of them come from a site that claims to be my ISP.  Some of them come 
from servers all over the world.  I was getting several of these messages a 
day.  Then they went away.  Now this week I'm getting them again but in 
lower numbers.

See the message below.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks

Charlie

We have detected that your e-mail account was used to send a huge amount of 
spam during the recent week.
Probably, your computer had been infected by a recent virus and now runs a 
trojaned proxy server.

We recommend you to follow our instruction in order to keep your computer 
safe.

Best wishes,
suddenlink.net technical support team.




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--------  Virus Warning Message --------

document.com is removed from here because it contains a virus 
(W32/Mydoom.o at MM).

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No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG Free Edition.
Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.4.0/760 - Release Date: 4/13/2007 
8:04 PM

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