My Outlook 2003 and Yahoo Mail Spam problem: WTF?

Ok Answerers, I've got a tricky one for you. The tech support folks at Yahoo keep sending me cookie-cutter responses to my question, so you're my only hope.

I'm using Yahoo's Business Mail (associated with my domain), and accessing it via POP3 with Outlook 2003. When I check the mail using the web client, I get very little spam. However, when I check with Outlook, something really strange happens: On send/receive, I get precisely 72 pieces of Spam.

They seem to be of the SMTP error type associated with the Sober virus. If I close Outlook and come back a day later, refresh my email, boom...another 72 pieces of Spam. It only happens when I do send/receive. The spam gets properly sorted to the junk mail folder, but I am constantly deleting tens of thousands of items from it after a day of using Outlook.

I've run several virus and adware programs and found nothing. Any advice?

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Yahoo puts all of it's SPAM into a SPAM folder. However, when you use you POP account settings, it downloads whatever is in your ONLINE SPAM folder into your Outlooks INBOX. From there, Outlook will refilter it into it's JUNK folder. I would suggest 2 things to try here.

Set Outlook to delete the messages from the server after syncing. Also, go into your web interface and delete everything in the SPAM folder and empty your online trash along with your Outlook trash.

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