spam from me? (I have seen it leave my box)

[rick]

This is not a case of spammers spoofing my email address.

I have seen the messages leave my box. First I noticed Norton
scanning my outgoing messages (when I had none). Then I started
sniffing my interface (using ngrep) and it confirmed that spam is
being sent from my computer via outlook but the messages are not sent
from the outbox and do not show up in my sent items.

I have run all the latest antivirus/spyware scans and nothing.

I have given outlook a junk smtp server so that it doesn't send
anything out. When doing a send and receive, it shows trying to send
3 messages even though only 1 message in the outbox.

Where does Outlook store these messages wating to be delivered? How
can someone use outlook for delivery but supress outlook from keeping
a copy in the sent items or using the outbox?

This has also started happening on my wife's machine and we do not get
the same emails.

 

[Jeff Stephenson [MSFT]]

Are you sure it's spam? It sounds like you're sending a read-recipt. What
version of Outlook do you have?

 

[rick]

Upon further reveiw they are Not Read reciepts. I am using Outlook
2002 and under tracking options I have "Never send a response"
checked. Does that only apply to read responses and not "not read"
responses?

 

[Jeff Stephenson [MSFT]]

Outlook 2002 (and I think all prior versions) had a bug that caused a
read-receipt to be sent regardless of those settings if an unread message
that had requested a read-receipt was deleted by emptying your Deleted Items
folder. This has been fixed in Outlook 2003 and in SP-3 of Outlook 2002.

--
Jeff Stephenson
Outlook Development
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights

Upon further reveiw they are Not Read reciepts. I am using Outlook
2002 and under tracking options I have "Never send a response"
checked. Does that only apply to read responses and not "not read"
responses?

"Jeff Stephenson [MSFT]" <[email protected]> wrote in

Are you sure it's spam? It sounds like you're sending a read-recipt. What
version of Outlook do you have?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have seen the messages leave my box. First I noticed Norton
scanning my outgoing messages (when I had none). Then I started
sniffing my interface (using ngrep) and it confirmed that spam is
being sent from my computer via outlook but the messages are not sent
from the outbox and do not show up in my sent items.

Are you sure they're being sent via Outlook? Mimicing an SMTP client is not
difficult. The malware you suspect is on yor machine could just be acting
as its own SMTP client, bypassing Outlook altogether.

 

[rick]

Nevermind.

I found these...

http://groups.google.com/[email protected]&rnum=6

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...fqiXukdDHA.1712%40tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl&rnum=2