Avast Infected E-Mail

[igor]

Just the attachment.

[redman]

Thanks for the clarification.

[John-]

You can subscribe to receive security news by microsoft. But if you do not request this you shoudn't receive emails from microsoft,...if you do receive them and you did not request this,...then it is spam 

[bob3160]

redman

it was set to repair if fail delete when this message was received

You actually answered you own question. The infected part was the exe file. Since it's not repairable it was deleted.
If you had set it to delete, It would have done the same thing.