Hmmm...I have always run anti-virus software, and indeed can track back to the date of the affected file to see that I'd run processes/affected changes at the time. But if I understand you correctly, I should go ahead and create a new file, move all the email from the affected file into it, and then either clean or delete the affected file folder? It's not the in-box/new mail file, but an ancillary one to accept mail from a secondary address. The file has a .dbx extension, not .mbx. And the virus was win32:Beagle, which according to avast! turned itself off in 2004. Still, if I've got the suggestion correct - and please confirm that I do - I'll try that. Better safe than sorry.