Possible Infection/Hacker

I get about 20 emails a day from diff addresses, but the
same culprit, saying failure to deliver to recipient, the
recipients change and they are just jumbled up letters as
a name. There is no attachment, but when 1 of them opens
it opens my media player and locks my system down. I have
to open it in order to delete it. A bad flaw in my email
service provider. I have tried to block it repeatedly but
he always gets around it. Also, there was an instance when
I was at a site, my site page refreshed on it's own and it
came up with bogus ads that were different, wanting me to
click on it to get new MSN Messenger updates. I know these
were bogus because 1 ad looked like it was pasted over the
original ad, as in showing 1 ad showing over and partially
obscuring a bigger ad. I refreshed and the original page
with the original ads appeared and those bogus ads were
gone. I have scanned with the latest Norton Antivirus. I
have a firewall and have scanned all ports which were
closed. I scanned with SpyBot when this first started and
it removed some unknown text from my registry. They all
say my system is clean. I have done all I know to do. Any
suggestions on what could be happening and what I can do
about it?

sgopus
Sun Oct 05 17:04:13 CDT 2003

disable the ability to receive html , this stops the
active x controls, turn off your preview pane, that way
you can click on and delete suspicous e-mail.

or get mailwasher that saves lots of time.

Angel
Sun Oct 05 18:57:02 CDT 2003

There are a lot of people out there with time on their
hands. Have you considered changing ISP? I recently went
to symatec to get info. I got one of those popups, in the
same color of symatec and language. YES I filled in my
address, thinking that I would be getting stuff from them.
Now I get Microsoft Updates through the mail. I am
considering changing my e-mailaddress.
My server automatically deletes attachments, but it kind
of sucks that now it is in the public domain.
It was supposed to be a secure connection.
Angel

sgopus
Sun Oct 05 20:31:27 CDT 2003

look also at disabling your messenger and get yourself a
firewall...