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Hotmail worm?
For some time now, my MSN email account has been sending junk/virus emails to people on my contact list. Note: I don't have a local email application, instead composing all my emails through hotmail.com. So, I immediately tried a scan with both Kasperky and Win Security Essentials, both came up negitive. I also deleted the contact list, but the junk emails continued to be sent to addresses in my inbox. Now, after managing to accidentally destroy the Windows bootloader, the ensuing reformat of my C:\ drive and a clean install of windows has not corrected the problem.
The only possibilities I can think of are: the problem is in a data file on my D:\ partition and a virus scanner won't find it; the problem is located on the Hotmail server (highly unlikely after this long of a time period); or I've managed to get another virus after reformatting the system drive.
Sorry I haven't been overly specific, but with no luck in an antivirus program, I don't know what details to report here. If any one has any experiance with this or a similar problem, I'm just out of ideas.