-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 11:43, Anne Wilson wrote: > > The viruses do not come in on genuine mail. The headers may suggest that > they are from a reputable source, but they never are. Many are instantly > recognisable as emails that you have not solicited. Delete them. Others > claim to come from Microsoft or AV distributors. None of these sources > would ever send you an email. Delete them. If you have any messages with > *any* attachment other than the MandrakeSoft footer, delete them unless you > are *very* sure that they came from a friend with an un-infected box. When > you have done all that, compress your mail folder from within Evo, then try > the scan again. > > There is no way that you need to delete all your existing mails if you do > all this. > I forgot to say - if you 'delete' a message by sending it to the wastebin folder it is not deleted. You must delete it from there as well. (Does shift-delete send it straight there?). Both the inbox and the wastebin must then be compacted. Until they are compacted they are not actually removed - just invisible - and a scan will still find them. After compaction you should be clear.
Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB199ZkFAvMr/nNX8RAp9eAKCMaWANnAsNaA15tav2vHv/Qd9MbQCfdAxo cArD6qEynUjpE6J+9gRsHAc= =ZwIc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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