Mail virus trojan worm not responding

ok last post ended up responses going futher and further away from the issues. turned into a boy cat fight.
was getting mulitple copies like trojan, virus, worm whatever. this am just typed a letter tried to send then disaster. had to get tricky keep from losing work. wouldnt send . then tried to open mailbox back not one thing showed up in in sent drafts trash etc. showed a number but nothing inside
mail wasnt responding. took some doing get to finder..
reopened all came back. took some doing but got that piece of mail in drafts out of outbox before ...
it would appear mac.mail10.4 has some" issues."
any concrete help not debate of theory out there?

d,
Spyware's highly unlikely on the Mac. Your phone, on the other hand, is a different story.
Bluetooth can be problematic, as well, if you allow any device to connect. There's even a term for it: Bluejacking, although it's used mainly for harmless pranks. It's easy enough to turn off, though.
Rebuilding the mailbox doesn't normally lose data. Deleting the mailbox would, though. Did you upgrade from OS X Panther to OS X Tiger? If so, mailbox data corruption is a fairly common issue and rebuilding tends to work well.
You can find out what processes are running and taking up your memory by running Activity Monitor. Slow response tends to go with either a process that's hogging memory or a simple lack of sufficient RAM.
Your Mail files are in Users/<your user name>/Library/Mail/<mailbox accounts>. You can back up by copying those files. If they're corrupt, you'll probably be wasting a blank disk.
Check my email for one other concern.
-Wayne

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