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How can you identify which POP3 emails are virus infected?

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waynemus
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It appears that a number of my emails are virus infected. There are thousands of potential emails that these may be. I'm downloading my emails through POP3, so it appears all emails are stored on my computer in collective files. When I run an antivirus program the only description for the destination of the virus infected emails is the file destination of the collective files they are part of.

How do I identify which emails are specifically infected when using POP3? Is there a way of gaining further information about emails infected other than the POP3 collective file that they are part of?

It appears that a number of my emails are virus infected. There are thousands of potential emails that these may be. I'm downloading my emails through POP3, so it appears all emails are stored on my computer in collective files. When I run an antivirus program the only description for the destination of the virus infected emails is the file destination of the collective files they are part of. How do I identify which emails are specifically infected when using POP3? Is there a way of gaining further information about emails infected other than the POP3 collective file that they are part of?

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Matt
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One must really ask who cares.

Those virus attachments are totally inert until you try and actually open them, and if your anti virus is anything more than rubbish it will detect it the second the file is written to the temp folder. Long before it is actually executed. As for malware in the body of an email. As Thunderbird does not execute scripts of any sort in email then they will never get a chance to run.

Personally the best thing you can do is stop the anti virus actually scanning those files. It is probably doing so every time you delete a mail or get one. Nothing guaranteed to slow things down than something stopping the process so it can play.