Microsoft Outlook - Cann't recieve email intermitantly - virus?

Question

I cannot recieve email. No problems sending. Can only send email after running SE Ad-aware. Even after not going onto internet sites I can not send anything. What sort of virus or worm is doing this? Or is it something else.

Answer 1

Ad-aware scans for spyware, not viruses.
What comes up when you scan with Ad-aware?
Have you tried scanning with Spybot Search & Destroy? http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html
Have you scanned with an antivirus like AVG? http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng/us/tpl/v5#avg-anti-virus-free

Double check that your e-mail company hasn't changed the settings on you.

Try Thunderbird - it has much more flexibility than Outlook.
Outlook can only filter e-mails by who sent them.
Thunderbird can filter them by who sent them, words in the subject, in the body of the e-mail, etc and combinations of these.
That's just one example.
http://getthunderbird.com

If all else fails - roll back your computer through the System Restore. Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, System Restore. It won't touch your files (video, e-mails, etc) just programs.

I also highly recommend Firefox...

Free, fast, a small 5mb download, Firefox blocks pop-ups and sites from secretly installing programs on your computer. It will copy over your settings from other browsers (cookies, settings, bookmarks). Firefox is powerful too, it's more up-to-date than even IE7 according to the web standards (w3.org).

The main reason I like Firefox is because it's customizable.

Why is customizability important?

Imagine being able to do 2 small things and never seeing a banner ad, flash ad or an iframe ad again? (Remember, pop-ups are already gone)
Imagine being able to pause your computer's music player when the phone rings without having to switch to it?

Firefox puts the power back in your hands!

Firefox - http://getfirefox.com/
Adblock Plus - http://adblockplus.org/
Adblock Filterset.G Updater - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1136/
FoxyTunes - http://www.foxytunes.com/
Firefox Addons - https://addons.mozilla.org/