Blue police light in tray???

I just installed Avast on my home Win 2000 system. I only use hotmail and yahoo so I do not use any internet mail from my desktop. For some reason I have all kind of spam-type emails trying to go thru my internet outbound email system. The Avast globe constantly spins and the police light in always on. I have checked “deny” to send out the emails and it’s in silent mode but it never stops. What can I do?

You seems to be infected by some kind of spammer virus… Maybe you should:

  1. Disable System Restore on Windows XP: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];310405
  2. Clean your temporary files.
  3. Schedule a boot time scanning with avast. Start avast! > Right click the skin > Schedule a boot-time scanning. Select for scanning archives. Boot.

and most important:

  1. Use a-squared, ewido or Spyware Terminator (trojan removers).

Also, you can see with TCPView from www.sysinternals.com, which program is starting to send mails…

Don’t you have a firewall? I mean, a real one, not only the XP SP2 internal one… ::slight_smile:

If you do not want to install TCPView it is most likely that avast will tell you the process that is sending mail - get it to do so by:

Internet Mail Scanner > click Customize > Advanced tab > Check “Timeout for Internet communication(s)” box > OK

avast should give you a popup box telling you the name of the process sending out mail to a server on port 25.