Outlook sends out email by itself

[Gr8fuldad]

Outlook 2003 sends out 1 email on its own with no record of it in Sent Mail
or my logs. I have recently restored my entire hard drive without restoring
any backups from Office 2003 but I have restored My Documents after scanning
the backup for viruses. I believe I have some kind of a worm or virus but
I've never knowingly dowloaded unknown files attached to emails. I've used
Norton Anti Virus 07, AVG and Microsoft Maliciuos Software Removal but can
find nothing.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Rich

 

[Stroller]

How do you know that Outlook is sending out messages?

Or, rather: what makes you think it is?

Stroller.

 

[Gr8fuldad]

Stroller,

When I click "send/receive" The Norton notification pops up and says
"sending 1 of 1". Normally, Norton will scan all outgoing messages, this one
is never scanned and I have nothing to go out in my outbox. It's a mystery.

Thanks,
Rich

 

[RogerG]

Did you find the solution to the problem? I am having a similar problem.

 

[KFEagle]

I think I may have similar problem but on a much grander scale.
Occasionally when I click send/receive, I'll notice at the bottom right
corner where it tells you "send/receive complete" that it says "sending ####
emails" this number has been as high as 3000 at times. THere is no record
of the emails being sent in "Sent Items" or anywhere else.

I heard someone mention a spam virus once that affected Outlook in a similar
manner. I've scanned with a couple of different anti-viruses but have found
nothing.

I REALLY don't want to be the source of a bunch of spam mailings. I get
enough junk mail as it is.

Any ideas?

 

[RogerG]

KFEagle, ...it must be a glitch within Outlook 2007, ...in the Send/Receive
group settings I disabled one email account, thereby leaving me only one
active email account, and the problem no longer occurs, ...it does not matter
which account I disable, so long as there is only 1 email account in the
Send/Receive group.