Maybe the Trojan horse is a human Trojan horse inside Microsoft/Hotmail
selling your email addresses.
Chuck Norcutt
Jeff Keller wrote:
> I sent a test email from one of my hotmail email accounts to an almost never
> used hotmail account to make sure it hadn't been shut down. The next day a
> spammer has an email with the subject
> "Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)" In the inbox of the never used
> account.
>
> It seems unlikely that I have a virus or trojan horse on the computer I used
> to send the email, but the coincidence between sending the first email and
> receiving the possibly only non-Microsoft spam in the account is unsettling.
> The computer is running a corporate version of McAffe antivirus. There is
> also a employer installed security agent that is supposed to block suspect
> activity.
>
> It looks like Spybot S&D got removed at some point. After reinstalling it
> and performing a scan, the system has a clean report other than a few
> tracking cookies. Other than Spybot are there any strongly recommended free
> software or other ways to scan my PC?
>
> TIA,
> -jeff
>
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