Windows Mail Bot

[bfordmn]

Hi,

I am running Windows Mail on Vista Home. It ports throught AOL. Twice now, a number of emails have been sent from our account. These two instances were about a week apart and we only know it when someone responds, asking if we have a bot or we notice several bounces in our in box that we did not send. We were not even home today when the emails were generated.

First, is this likely a bot residing on my computer or could someone being using our email as a 'return label' only. Most of the bounced emails are from our address book and some are just address we have sent to in the past but not in our address book. Finally, there is nothing in the sent box indicating that anything was sent. Again the only indication that we had been 'used' was the bounced emails and friendly questions.

I installed, updated and ran the latest MWB program and it found nothing. Should it find a mail bot if it is residing on our computer?

I cannot find anything on google. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Ben

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