My email sends messages to other people without me knowing, does changing my password stop this?

i think i have an email virus, one friend suggested that i change my password for it not to send to the email addresses on my address book. does this method help?

My email sends messages to other people without me knowing, does changing my password stop this?
no-you have a virus or trojan doing this. you must clean it or it will continue useing your email %26amp; computer as a bot. run this free online scan in safe mode with net working. http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ and this free tool also. http://www.prevx.com/filenames/158743955... good luck.
Reply:Sounds like a trojan or worm infection. Simply changing your password now will be no help since the infection has already embedded itself within your system. Anything you may find in regular mode will most likely be a shell or delivery program. What you remove will be the casing used to deliver the virus.





Go into safe mode without networking and using a good anti-virus and spyware program (preferably seperate) scan your system completely and see what you find. AVG, Norton, Pandasoft are usually good for this but it will be slow and tedious so be patient.


Anit Spyware use Ada Aware, Spybot Search %26amp; Destroy, and or SuperAntiSpyware.





With this you should be able to locate and or remove the infection or at least quarantine it so it will no longer prey on your system.


When finished clean up your hard drive and registry and then do a Disk Defrag. This often times will be enough to disrupt some of the functions of an infection.





If afterwards your still having problems you may need to do a deep re-format of your hard drive using DBan and then re-install your whole OS (Operating System).





This is not a one day operation t remove these bugs so make sure you've go time to do this and spread it out over a couple days to insure a proper install and removal.





Be careful of what you download and by all means DO NOT open any e-mail attachments. Not only are they a waste of time but they clog up your hard drive with unnecessary crap and allow infections form sources you don't know. There's no way to tell who or where the infection was implemented from beforehand without a careful investigation.





Arm yourself with the latest AV and Anti Spyware programs and be sure to use a decent firewall always.
Reply:Your computer is infected and you may soon get a message from your ISP





This is what viruses and worms do..... send spam to all your email contacts.





SEE free virus scans from best:


http://www.bluecollarpc.net/virus-scans....
Reply:what email are you using? if its a web based email then I would definately change the password. Also if its a computer based email, like outlook, scan with an antivirus. http://housecall.trendmicro.com is a good free one that removes trojans very well. Anyways, good luck!
Reply:Your computer is infected. Do a full system scan with both your anti-spyware and anti-virus apps.





For further info...


Google: botnet.


Google: zombie computer.





Good luck.
Reply:No, it does not. The problem here is that you may not be the one sending the e-mails out. It could be anyone that has received e-mail from you that could be sending the spam. An e-mail header can be forged as it is just a text pre-amble from your e-mail client to the e-mail server. If one was a particular devious spam writer, one would supply someone elses e-mail address in the spam from box so that the spam writer would not be traced backed...
Reply:Most likely, you have a virus, trojan or some other infection. Your password information is likely to be transmitted to whomever is controlling the malicious program.





I would suggest running an online virus checker. Trend micro (www.trendmicro.com) has a free checker called "House Call." It would be a good place to start.
Reply:YES I WOULD CHANGE UR PASSWORD EVERY TWO WEEKS!!!! GOOD LUCK