Q.1 When you send e-mails to one of these .net accounts do you get a confirmation of successful delivery and read ? - my E-mail is on Hotmail.

Q.2 I had one attempt yesterday and the TalkTalk server sent back a failed delivery message with a load of attachments. I opened one of these and it seems to have infected the system with a virus, the effect of which is to constantly disable and re-enable the driver on my D-Link mini USB Hub whilst the system is running.

Norton can't see it

Grateful for any advice.

Nick

Q.1 When you send e-mails to one of these .net accounts do you get a confirmation of successful delivery and read ? - my E-mail is on Hotmail.

Q.2 I had one attempt yesterday and the TalkTalk server sent back a failed delivery message with a load of attachments. I opened one of these and it seems to have infected the system with a virus, the effect of which is to constantly disable and re-enable the driver on my D-Link mini USB Hub whilst the system is running.

Norton can't see it

Grateful for any advice.

Nick

The sever didn't send you a virus, but then Norton wouldn't see any thing anyway. You should only get confirmation emails if the outgoing settings ask for it I think.

Regarding the virus, I think you have fallen foul of the current round of fake undeliverable messages with viruses attached that are currently doing the rounds. We have blocked loads of them in the office, from various different sources.

Looking at the device list now, I can see a USB item called Composite USB device (Presumably the D Link Hub) being successively removed and then reloaded at intervals ranging from 10 - 30 secs, accompanied by the high tone - low tone, low-tone - high tone sound thru the system speakers that usually occurs when connecting disconnecting USB devices.

These events also seem to coincide with activity on the modem/router lights

The only thing that seemed to stop it during a session was to power down the hub, reset all USB hubs thru the reset hub button on in the device window and powering-off and up again the router/modem. But that only lasts for a session.

As soon as the system is re-booted it all starts again.

Trojan in start-up files or has my system been hi-jacked?

Nick

Might not be a trojan then, have you tried different USB ports on the pc, eg. the ones at the front instead of back to see if that solves the problem.

Strangely enough. It all seems to have stopped within the last half hour.

Have to see this evening if it re-occurs on start-up

I'm thinking that as the mini D-link hub is separately powered whether the power supply is on the way out and only stablises its output after x time on and that, in the warm-up interval the system software was reacting to inappropriate return signals ?

Nick