(AT&T/Bellsouth ISP) PC Sending SPAM emails (SOLVED)

[DavidR]

You're welcome.

Personally I would leave the Mail Shield Sensitivity set to High Heuristics, I don't find that to be a hit on performance.

[thekochs]

Well the bounces would be coming back to the From address, which I guess would be the default email address for that bellsouth account. So any bounce backs would be sitting in that webmail account inbox awaiting collection, either by webmail or by downloading them in your Outlook email client.

Thx all for responses on what probably is not a Avast issue....
After 10 minutes I found the new AT&T account page to change the password.....going to wait on that.
I think per the above the original SPAM came into webmail and since no filter then used the webmail few addresses to spam out.
When my wife used Outlook to download her e:mails.....few times a day....outlook typically closed......she got the kickbacks from the TO recipients rejecting.
Anyway, only my guess now......going to give it a few days now that I've enabled the SPAM guard and deleted the online contacts.
I also reset the Avast sensitivy back to normal.
If the above doesn't work I'll change the password too......just pain to do online, then each of the machine's outlook settings.
BTW, the password is a VERY strong password.

I'll let you know how it goes.

UPDATE 7/4/12
Well, no issues..........seems making sure the SPAM filter is "ON" and removing all addresses and sent items in "webmail" did the trick.
Wanted to post so others having similiar issue could find

[DavidR]

Thanks for the feedback.