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[Mike Evans]

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> well I went to send and email and it asked me for the password but when
> i had a look online it had already sent it. That leads me to believe
> some keylogger is on my computer.

That doesn't sound like a logical conclusion based on the evidence and 
what we know about Thunderbird.  Thunderbird itself generally stores 
passwords required to access accounts it is configured to access.  Even 
if Thunderbird had succeeded in sending an email when you had not given 
it a password I don't see why that means there is a keylogger on your 
computer.  Keyloggers typically record keypresses under certain 
circumstances, and then send the results to another computer on the 
internet.  They don't start dispatching emails for you.

Of course, if you do have a keylogger operating on your machine then it 
may well have been logging whilst you changed your gmail password. 
However, assuming you are using a Linux machine this is (again) 
extremely unlikely as the vast majority of those things target Windows 
users, and security on Linux has always been such that it is very hard 
to install something like that secretly.

Mike