why is my password being sent in my email headers

[Art S.]

I have had email replies that contain my password for my hotmail account
which means all of my email sent from Outlook 2007 contain my password, how
do I stop that? What is wrong? Please answer fast if you can as I have
stopped sending emails for Outlook 2007. Windows 7 Pro, Outlook 2007/ Office
2007 Pro with connector installed. No other programs installed that aren't
from MS except for Avast 5. Thank you for your assistance.

Art

 

[Roady [MVP]]

So you are seeing it in the quoted text of the original message?
Where exactly does this show up?
What does this quoted header look like?

Just to be sure; have you verified that you did not specify your password in
the Display Name field?

Another possibility is that Avast did something to your message header.
Uninstall the Outlook/mail integration part of your virus scanner and try
again; you'd still be sufficiently protected by your on-access scanner part
of the virus scanner. For more details see;
http://www.msoutlook.info/question/20

 

[VanguardLH]

I have had email replies that contain my password for my hotmail account
which means all of my email sent from Outlook 2007 contain my password, how
do I stop that? What is wrong? Please answer fast if you can as I have
stopped sending emails for Outlook 2007. Windows 7 Pro, Outlook 2007/ Office
2007 Pro with connector installed. No other programs installed that aren't
from MS except for Avast 5. Thank you for your assistance.

Art

Outlook does not insert your login credentials in the headers or body of any
e-mails that it sends. You mention seeing your password in replies by never
mention if you see the password in e-mails that you *send*. Have you yet
sent yourself a test e-mail from your Hotmail account to another account
(not the same Hotmail account and preferrably to an account on a different
domain) to see if your password is in the headers of your test e-mail? You
need to first see if YOU are including the password.

If you see anything of your login credentials in the headers, something
other than Outlook is adding it. Could be an add-on that you installed into
Outlook. See what happens when you load Outlook in its safe mode which does
not load any enabled add-ons:

outlook.exe /safe

Something upstream of Outlook might be inserting the login credentials, like
your anti-virus program interrogating your outbound e-mail traffic. There
is also the possibility that you have an infected host and malware is
divulging the login credentials in your outbound e-mails. If you don't see
your login credentials in your outbound e-mails then it is the other party
that is adding that information in their new e-mails sent to you as replies.

None of the headers in a reply sent back to you will be using your headers.
Those will be the headers for that sender's e-mail service when using their
account. Replies are still NEW e-mails from the sender. For anything of
your information to be in their headers means the sender added it.

In just WHAT header do you see your login credentials?