We need to keep the help section helpfull and friendly/ in kind regard... no matter what issues are "already there" It's easier to give thanks for help and for providing further information that would help us find issues..
Still, you do need to know, what you've done, running all these emails and not using an anti-virus with the computer online frequently, even if you don't use internet explorer is the WORST possible situation for you.. Your computer is a virus magnet..
you need to contact EVERYONE on your outlook contact list and let them know that your computer was infected and may have attached virus code into attachments that you sent them, if you sent them attachments while you were infected....
Most email born viruses are accountable to situations such as yours..
Please take the time to find and read a best practices article on preventing viruses on your computer and preventing infections from spreading through your email contact lists...
Because your email is stored in a database rather than individual files; some of these programs will not scan your email or email attachments for viruses.
Most outlook email is stored as a database in the following location
* C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\USER\LOCAL SETTINGS\APPLICATION DATA\MICROSOFT\OUTLOOK\ARCHIVE.PST
* C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\USER\LOCAL SETTINGS\APPLICATION DATA\MICROSOFT\OUTLOOK\OUTLOOK.PST **
You can see that this one scanning application did not scan your email where it says files not scanned....
The only thing you can do to get your email scanned is scan attachments as you receive or open them using an antivirus application compatible with outlook email.
Also, you need an antivirus/antimalware application just to browse the internet because windows does not do much to prevent encoded exploits from executing malicious codes from within a HTML document, either mail "BODY" or "CONTENT" or encoded links that point to third party hosted images/content, banner ads etc... These other places could host malicious code, and your virus scanner might not even pay attention to it untill it's too late....
It's a tough, dirty internet full of holes and you must consider that there are worms and dangerous bugs lurking in every corner....
Use an off site email service provider like yahoo or G-mail that has an option to pre-scan attachments for viruses before they even get onto your computer, an option to view email as "text only" and "do not display images" "do not play sounds" "do not play animations" etc.. these settings help prevent your computer from getting infected by reducing the amount of scripted/active code running on your computer, from untrusted sources, such as content/body of your email, or code from offsite hosted images, websites etc.........
It's possible to back up your email by copying those two files listed by your scan report' onto a removable disk; cdrom/dvdrom etc..
* C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\USER\LOCAL SETTINGS\APPLICATION DATA\MICROSOFT\OUTLOOK\ARCHIVE.PST
* C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\USER\LOCAL SETTINGS\APPLICATION DATA\MICROSOFT\OUTLOOK\OUTLOOK.PST
I have no idea how to restore/import/export because I don't use outlook email..
There are some applications that will do an automatic backup/restore of outlook emails though, you may want to look into that if doing it manually doesn't work.


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