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   Ray to Leonidas Jones   
   Re: How to remove virus taxes.exe from I   
   23 Nov 05 15:04:18   
   
   From: raykosXXX@optonline.net   
      
   Leonidas Jones wrote:   
   > Ray wrote:   
   >   
   >> A Panda scan of my computer showed Virus:trj/Mitgliender.EK in my   
   >> Inbox and Trash with the filename Taxes.exe. The Trash folder   
   >> contained only 11 messages, so I looked at each expecting to see an   
   >> odd attachment to one of them. The only one with an attachment was   
   >> from my nephew, and there was not another copy of this message in my   
   >> Inbox. The Inbox contains hundreds of messages, and since I couldn't   
   >> find anything odd in Trash, I'm not going to go through the Inbox.   
   >>   
   >> Any ideas for finding Taxes.exe and removing it? Netscape 7.2, W2K.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Thanks.   
   >>   
   >> Ray   
   >   
   >   
   > Try compacting the folders.  Deleted messages are not truly deleted   
   > until the folders are compacted, your AV scan may have been picking up   
   > an old message that NS no longer sees.   
   >   
   > Lee   
      
   Lee,   
      
   Thanks. That got rid of the problem.   
      
   Ray   
      
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