OT: Strange Outlook behavior...

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting John Esak <john at valar.com>:

>
> I have what appears to be a virus... but I have checked thoroughly and
> their
> doesn't appear to be any virus on either of these two machines. They are
> my
> machine at home and my machine at work. They both now take about 4.5
> minutes
> before they start downloading mail from my mailserver. Then, they
> download
> the mai as if nothing is wrong. Until they start downloading, I see only
> an
> hourglass.
>
> I have traced the processes has this happens and still can't determine
> exactly what is going on. I will do more extensive testing later today,
> but
> I'm just curious if nayone has ever seen this behavior.

Well, I don't use Outlook, but...

Do you have any way of monitoring network traffic?   During this delay,
is your system generating any?  (At a minimum, does a "netstat -a" show
any unexpected connections?)  Such traffic might signal a worm/trojan
that is trying to do something at that time.

Can you telnet into your mail server's SMTP port without any delay?  If
you know SMTP, you can try reading an e-mail that way.  If it goes
without any delay, then it's probably not a problem at the server end.
If even telnet/SMTP takes a long time, perhaps it's something at the
server end, and not your system?

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