18000 emails daily to start

Hi, Your hijackthis log looks clean as do the other logs. Your problem does not appear to be malware-related. If your email address is posted on your web site, it can be harvested by spammers. The "from" field can be changed by spammers to appear that you are the source of the email. I would suggest getting an email filter such as Mailwasher Pro. It will not cut down on the mail received, but you can train the filter to mark spam email for deletion before it's downloaded onto your computer. Good luck!

Not wanting to step on anyone's toes here, but a few points to mention, your webhost/website administrator/etc should be able to start a resolution to this problem with software on the server such as Spam Assasin and some kind of policy to drop emails tagged by Spam Assasin I am sure there may be other programs/solutions for this and as well (mentioned before here by waterfalls) you need to mask any email shown on your webpages so spam harvesters do not get your email addresses, since the current ones are already spam targets, you need the website administrator to issue new email addresses and send all emails to the old ones to trash (dev/null). I hope that these suggestions will help you some. Tom Coyote Wilson

Thanks Waterfalls and Coyote, appreciate the advise. Will see what I can do about what you suggested. Cuz this problem is still unresolved and out of control. Thanks for your time, thanks for everything. I can never thank you enough. eternally grateful, Diva

Posting this for Waterfalls:

Be sure to keep SunJava, updated

In Add/Remove programs click on these and press *remove* if listed:
J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 - 97.99Mb
J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 2 - 143.00Mb
J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 4 - 144.00Mb
J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 5- 151.00Mb
Java 2 Runtime Environment, SE v1.4.2_04 - 130.00Mb
Or any other outdated J2SE


It is important to remove older versions as these are the ones with the holes in them. You will be surprised when you go to add/remove to see all of the versions sitting there.

Download Newest >>>> http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp

Once installed you can test to see that it is in fact installed >>>>

Sun Java Test


Sun Microsystems has fixed five security bugs in Java that expose computers running Linux, Solaris and Windows to hacker attack.

Lets also try this:

Go here and run this scan. Let me know what it finds.
Microsoft - Malicious Software Removal Tool
http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx


Download this one and let me know if it finds anything.
RootkitRevealer
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/RootkitRevealer.html

When it's done, go to file->save
save the logfile to the desktop, and then paste the contents here.

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