Vista - Outlook 2007 Vista recovery of .PSt and contacts

true, but even if the viruses "seem" not do to any arm, i want to get rid of it. What i do not understand is: "Why can a virus program not delete the email that contains the virus, instead of the whole file.

I can try the different programs like Bitdefender, Trendmicro, nod32 etc, but i feel that i will have a lot of work restoring the "pst" file.

But thanks,

François

It depends upon whether the AV performs active scanning or not. If it performs active scanning, then the mail is scanned while downloading *before* it is written to your .PST file - but if it does not, then it can only scan once it is on your HD - i.e. in your .PST file.

In this respect, I like Symantec's business products because they scan outlook, Notes, and other third party client mails *before* they get added to the HD, and can quarantine the threats if any exist.

I know other products have active scanning like that as well, but sometimes it is not enabled (either by design / default or because someone purposefully didn't enable it / disabled it because of high resource usage).