Virus in SeaMonkey 2.10.1 profile file on Win 7

[Daniel47]

I dual boot Win7 and Mandriva Linux and tonight I'm on my Linux
platform. On both OS, I use SeaMonkey Suite (think Firefox browser plus
Thunderbird email/newsgroups plus other bits) with the profile used for
both installations stored on my Windows 7 D:\

For those here that are unaware, SeaMonkey saves its e-mails in one file
(or rather one for incoming (inbox) and one for outgoing (sent) and
creates an index file to locate the start of the actual e-mail.

On Friday, I booted into Win7 to update the
system/anti-virus/malware/etc, and then I ran the AV, AVG, and it said
it had found a virus in an email, in the sent folder and in the mail
account and then reported that it had isolated the virus, or whatever.

This mean its moved my "sent" email file out of the profile and the
threads window in SeaMonkey is just displaying the email title
information that is contained in "sent.msf"??

Anybody know how can I reclaim my sent file??

I've checked the AVG $Vault folder (using my Linux) and see three
folders (2 x .fil and 1 x .idx), all created Friday, so how can I
reclaim my sent files??

TIA

Daniel

 

[Ed Cryer]

I dual boot Win7 and Mandriva Linux and tonight I'm on my Linux
platform. On both OS, I use SeaMonkey Suite (think Firefox browser plus
Thunderbird email/newsgroups plus other bits) with the profile used for
both installations stored on my Windows 7 D:\

For those here that are unaware, SeaMonkey saves its e-mails in one file
(or rather one for incoming (inbox) and one for outgoing (sent) and
creates an index file to locate the start of the actual e-mail.

On Friday, I booted into Win7 to update the
system/anti-virus/malware/etc, and then I ran the AV, AVG, and it said
it had found a virus in an email, in the sent folder and in the mail
account and then reported that it had isolated the virus, or whatever.

This mean its moved my "sent" email file out of the profile and the
threads window in SeaMonkey is just displaying the email title
information that is contained in "sent.msf"??

Anybody know how can I reclaim my sent file??

I've checked the AVG $Vault folder (using my Linux) and see three
folders (2 x .fil and 1 x .idx), all created Friday, so how can I
reclaim my sent files??

TIA

Daniel

You go into AVG, History - Virus Vault, and it should be there. You can
check which of the three you want from the Path heading.
Highlight it and click Restore.

Ed

 

[Daniel47]

You go into AVG, History - Virus Vault, and it should be there. You can
check which of the three you want from the Path heading.
Highlight it and click Restore.

Ed

Thanks for this, Ed. I'll give it a try and report back.

Daniel

 

[Paul in Houston TX]

I dual boot Win7 and Mandriva Linux and tonight I'm on my Linux
platform. On both OS, I use SeaMonkey Suite (think Firefox browser plus
Thunderbird email/newsgroups plus other bits) with the profile used for
both installations stored on my Windows 7 D:\

For those here that are unaware, SeaMonkey saves its e-mails in one file
(or rather one for incoming (inbox) and one for outgoing (sent) and
creates an index file to locate the start of the actual e-mail.

On Friday, I booted into Win7 to update the
system/anti-virus/malware/etc, and then I ran the AV, AVG, and it said
it had found a virus in an email, in the sent folder and in the mail
account and then reported that it had isolated the virus, or whatever.

This mean its moved my "sent" email file out of the profile and the
threads window in SeaMonkey is just displaying the email title
information that is contained in "sent.msf"??

Anybody know how can I reclaim my sent file??

I've checked the AVG $Vault folder (using my Linux) and see three
folders (2 x .fil and 1 x .idx), all created Friday, so how can I
reclaim my sent files??

TIA

Daniel

You may want to check with the Seamonkey newsgroup, too.

 

[Ed Cryer]

Thanks for this, Ed. I'll give it a try and report back.

Daniel

After the restore run AVG on the email again, and this time select "heal
in situ".

Ed

 

[Char Jackson]

After the restore run AVG on the email again, and this time select "heal
in situ".

I normally take steps to make sure my AV app ignores the email store.
If I attempt to launch a bit of 'malware via email', my AV app will
catch it then. If I don't attempt to launch it, it'll sit there
harmlessly.

 

[Bob Henson]

I normally take steps to make sure my AV app ignores the email store.
If I attempt to launch a bit of 'malware via email', my AV app will
catch it then. If I don't attempt to launch it, it'll sit there
harmlessly.

Good advice. Folk don't realise that not only is checking e-mail,
internet connections, network connections, IM and P2P etc are not only a
waste of time (as you suggest the main or heuristic modules will catch
anything that appears) but it slow the systems down considerably - on an
old computer nearly to a standstill some times.


--
Bob
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, UK


I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather did - not screaming and
yelling like the passengers in his car.

 

[Daniel47]

You may want to check with the Seamonkey newsgroup, too.

Paul, I check the mozilla.support.seamonkey group on the news.mozila.org
server virtually every night, but no-one had replied to my post on this
one, so I posted here.

Thanks for the advise, anyway!

Daniel

 

[Daniel47]

After the restore run AVG on the email again, and this time select "heal
in situ".

Ed

Ed, thanks to your suggestion, I found the AVG Virus Vault, re-stored my
mail folder, deleted the suspect e-mail and compacted the profile to
really remove the sus e-mail.

Then I re-ran AVG and got the all clear.

Again, thank you!

Daniel

 

[Char Jackson]

Ed, thanks to your suggestion, I found the AVG Virus Vault, re-stored my
mail folder, deleted the suspect e-mail and compacted the profile to
really remove the sus e-mail.

Then I re-ran AVG and got the all clear.

Great, now you can configure AVG to ignore your email so this doesn't
happen again.

 

[Sam Hill]

Great, now you can configure AVG to ignore your email so this doesn't
happen again.

Email scanning not necessary:
http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tutorials/email-scanning/index.htm

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Paul, I check the mozilla.support.seamonkey group on the news.mozila.org
server virtually every night, but no-one had replied to my post on this
one, so I posted here.

Thanks for the advise, anyway!

Daniel

You mean we're only your backup support?



And it does seem like coming here was a good idea...

 

[Daniel47]

You mean we're only your backup support?



And it does seem like coming here was a good idea...

Always better to have two sources of advice than just one!!

I'm not a "Power-User" of either Windows 7 or Mandrive Linux, but, in
either case, it's good to have "backup support"

Daniel

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Always better to have two sources of advice than just one!!

I'm not a "Power-User" of either Windows 7 or Mandrive Linux, but, in
either case, it's good to have "backup support"

Daniel

One can often get good advice here even with off-topic questions.

All one really needs to do to be safe is to ignore my advice

 

[Ed Cryer]

One can often get good advice here even with off-topic questions.

All one really needs to do to be safe is to ignore my advice

That confounds Aristotelian logic; rather like "Everything I say is a
lie", and then try and give it a truth-value!

Ed

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

That confounds Aristotelian logic; rather like "Everything I say is a
lie", and then try and give it a truth-value!

Ed

We're so philosophical here!

You have caught me in my tendency toward paradox.

As for your quoted sentence, I hereby assign it a truth value: It is
true, or else it isn't.

I guess we are having fun yet.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

We're so philosophical here!

You have caught me in my tendency toward paradox.

As for your quoted sentence, I hereby assign it a truth value: It is
true, or else it isn't.

I guess we are having fun yet.

OK, I have to remind y'all of the old philosophical flash card[1].

On side A is written "The other side of this card is true"
On side B is written "The other side of this card is false"

Or the Star Trek episode (in the original series) where Captain Kirk
save the situation by giving a similar paradox to the evil computer,
which then went up in metaphorical smoke. I guess that was before
Ctrl-Alt-Del.

[1] Because I have no self-restraint.

 

[Ed Cryer]

We're so philosophical here!

You have caught me in my tendency toward paradox.

As for your quoted sentence, I hereby assign it a truth value: It is
true, or else it isn't.

I guess we are having fun yet.

OK, I have to remind y'all of the old philosophical flash card[1].

On side A is written "The other side of this card is true"
On side B is written "The other side of this card is false"

Or the Star Trek episode (in the original series) where Captain Kirk
save the situation by giving a similar paradox to the evil computer,
which then went up in metaphorical smoke. I guess that was before
Ctrl-Alt-Del.

[1] Because I have no self-restraint.

You need a holiday;
http://tinyurl.com/dyxuj6
or maybe some cheese.
http://tinyurl.com/3ddh6m

Ed

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:24:11 +0100, Ed Cryer wrote:

Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:42:01 +1000, (e-mail address removed) wrote:

Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:19:16 +1000, (e-mail address removed) wrote:

Paul in Houston TX wrote:
(e-mail address removed) wrote:
I dual boot Win7 and Mandriva Linux and tonight I'm on my Linux
platform. On both OS, I use SeaMonkey Suite (think Firefox browser
plus Thunderbird email/newsgroups plus other bits) with the profile
used for both installations stored on my Windows 7 D:\

For those here that are unaware, SeaMonkey saves its e-mails in one
file (or rather one for incoming (inbox) and one for outgoing (sent)
and creates an index file to locate the start of the actual e-mail.

On Friday, I booted into Win7 to update the
system/anti-virus/malware/etc, and then I ran the AV, AVG, and it said
it had found a virus in an email, in the sent folder and in the mail
account and then reported that it had isolated the virus, or whatever.

This mean its moved my "sent" email file out of the profile and the
threads window in SeaMonkey is just displaying the email title
information that is contained in "sent.msf"??

Anybody know how can I reclaim my sent file??
o
I've checked the AVG $Vault folder (using my Linux) and see three
folders (2 x .fil and 1 x .idx), all created Friday, so how can I
reclaim my sent files??

TIA

Daniel

You may want to check with the Seamonkey newsgroup, too.

Paul, I check the mozilla.support.seamonkey group on the news.mozila.org
server virtually every night, but no-one had replied to my post on this
one, so I posted here.

Thanks for the advise, anyway!

Daniel

You mean we're only your backup support?



And it does seem like coming here was a good idea...


Always better to have two sources of advice than just one!!

I'm not a "Power-User" of either Windows 7 or Mandrive Linux, but, in
either case, it's good to have "backup support"

Daniel

One can often get good advice here even with off-topic questions.

All one really needs to do to be safe is to ignore my advice


That confounds Aristotelian logic; rather like "Everything I say is a
lie", and then try and give it a truth-value!

Ed

We're so philosophical here!

You have caught me in my tendency toward paradox.

As for your quoted sentence, I hereby assign it a truth value: It is
true, or else it isn't.

I guess we are having fun yet.

OK, I have to remind y'all of the old philosophical flash card[1].

On side A is written "The other side of this card is true"
On side B is written "The other side of this card is false"

Or the Star Trek episode (in the original series) where Captain Kirk
save the situation by giving a similar paradox to the evil computer,
which then went up in metaphorical smoke. I guess that was before
Ctrl-Alt-Del.

[1] Because I have no self-restraint.

You need a holiday;
http://tinyurl.com/dyxuj6
or maybe some cheese.
http://tinyurl.com/3ddh6m

Ed

Well, MP is always good, thanks.

I've seen the Wensleydale skit before, but I enjoyed it again - see the
above remark. I still don't recognize all the cheese names

I think the dancers are doing Pentozalis, but there wasn't enough shown
for me to be sure (I'm not all that knowledgeable about Greek dances).