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Find a virus in email

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Sybastian
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I imported old outlook email into Thunderbird. My inbox started receiving lots of rejected email notices, some that say rejected due to virus.

I'm thinking an old email may have a virus in it, but I don't know how to track down which one. I can't scan the emails in Thunderbird. I've since changed my passwords so that Thunderbird can't connect and slowly the rejected email notices stopped.

I imported old outlook email into Thunderbird. My inbox started receiving lots of rejected email notices, some that say rejected due to virus. I'm thinking an old email may have a virus in it, but I don't know how to track down which one. I can't scan the emails in Thunderbird. I've since changed my passwords so that Thunderbird can't connect and slowly the rejected email notices stopped.

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Matt
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see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_%28email%29