An annoying, be it interesting, problem

[Nagisaki]

Alright, here's a very interesting problem I've been trying to figure out for the past few days for a client of my bosses. The client's desktop is filled with email links, each one to a different e-mail. When the e-mails are deleted, they re-spawn within a few minutes. I've run a virus scan and came up with nothing. Done a lot of poking around online but haven't been able to find anything, so any help at all would be much appreciated.

 

[patentman]

run hijackthis. Most likely spyware/malware.

 

[QueBert]

hijackthis! also run msconfig and look for any oddball processes. not sure what virus scan you ran, but the trends micro free online scan is a great backup, you can run it directly from their web site (can't hurt) some of these things just require trial and error

 

[Nagisaki]

Unfortunately I won't be able to deal with the issue until the beginning of next month, but first thing I'll run is hijack this... can't believe I didn't think to run that in the first place XD

Thanks for the replies, by the way!