This is I think the safes option, but backup before doing anything.
#OUTLOOK EMAIL VIRUS SCAN HOW TO#
This would allow you to open Outpost and try to find this infection and remove it manually, delete the email then clear the deleted items folder and then compact them (sorry don't know if this is an option in outlook or how to do it). If you scanned it avast may be able to either give it a clean bill of health or report a virus, if it reported infection I would suggest you make notes of what it found particularly any reference to the actual email and choose No Action. You could run an on-demand scan either 'Local Drives' or 'Folder Selection' of the location of the pst file, that would include it, but it could be a risk. Robert Sparnaaij MVP-Outlook Outlook guides and more:. When a macro virus infects a software application, it causes a sequence of actions to begin automatically when the application is opened. I don't use Outlook so I can't speak from experience if avast can extract infected emails from the pst file, but it can do this from OE's. If this is a migration to Exchange, you can first import the pst-files and then run a database wide Exchange level virus scanner to clean up any infected messages. A macro virus is a virus written in the same macro language used for software programs, including Microsoft Excel or word processors such as Microsoft Word.
Some AVs could just see the pst file as infected and not an email within it and delete that or those that can try to extract an individual infected email might corrupt it, the end result being the same a loss of email.īefore doing anything backup your emails, etc. What version of avast are you using, Home/Pro ? The Mail Anti-Virus extension for Microsoft Office Outlook can scan incoming and outgoing messages that are transmitted via the POP3, SMTP, NNTP, and IMAP protocols. It allows you to open the Mail Anti-Virus settings from inside Microsoft Office Outlook, and to specify at what moment email messages are to be scanned for viruses and other malware. The pst file is a huge database file with all your emails in it, avast may have difficulty in extracting a single infected email from within it and putting the file back together without corrupting it. During installation of Kaspersky Security, the Mail Anti-Virus extension is embedded into Microsoft Office Outlook. With extreme care as there is a possibility you could lose the.
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