In MS Outlook, with nothing in the outbox, when I hit send/receive
the status line in lower right indicates sending 1 of 7 messages. 
I have run Norton antivirus repeatedly, with current subscription and
all updates.  Have run Spyware Dr and CCleaner too.  Very concerned. 
What do you think is going on here?

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 30 Dec 2005 09:42 PST

You may have some read receipts that are being sent which won't show
up in your outbox.

See if this helps:
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/delete_rr.htm

Here's a similar case:
http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-804015.php

Please let me know if the above solution works.

Best wishes,
Rainbow

I also had the same problem and it was quite disconcerting!
A person at Microsft who develops Outlook replied to what it is here in this thread
http://www.alegsa.com.ar/N/i42/Sending%20phantom%20messages.php

There were bugs in Outlook 2003, if you deleted a message without ever
opening it AND that message had a read receipt an outgoing e-mail was
sent without you requesting it. The Microsoft Developer says they
fixed the bugs in Service Pack 1 but I am going to keep my eye on this
because I think once in a while I am still sending out these phantom
messages. Outlook should ask you if you want to send a Read recept or
not and the bug was that it wasn't always asking.

Great question, I have been wondering about that myself so I was happy
to poke around and check it out once you mentioned it.
~rox

It's possible you may have selected to automatically send read
receipts to emails that request them. But that option can be
customized. Try going to "Tools," "Options," "Email Options," and then
"Tracking Options." In the lower part of the window you'll see three
buttons that will allow you to select "Always," "Never," or "Ask me." 
Selecting "Never" or "Ask" may take care of the problem.

ok first of all ive never had luck with norton get avg anti virus its
free and so far has worked for me
http://www.grisoft.com/doc/71/lng/us/tpl/tpl01

also i would jsut get rid of outloook and swith to an internet mail
program like g-mail so its not storing all those emails on your hard
drive. plus you never have to worry about your hard drive crashing and
you can check it from anywhere in the world.

impaler13354-ga,
I know cross-talk is frowned upon but would you have any comment on
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=607818

It pertains to (paid) webmail services and data security via backups.