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Posted on Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 4:40 AM

Tips to Solve when Antivirus Cannot Delete Virus Infected Outlook PST


Viruses are self-copying programs that can infect your computer and its files. Among other reasons, virus infection is one of the most common one that can corrupt your data files and render them out of access. Outlook PST can also get corrupt for the same reason. Since PST contains your important emails, calendar entries, contacts, and other important Outlook items and PST Recovery becomes quite essential.

To illustrate such problems, consider the following practical situation of virus infection with your computer:

1. Your Windows based computer is infected from virus.

2. You start the computer in safe mode and run an antivirus software.

3. The antivirus software finds virus in Outlook PST file. To get rid of virus, when you try to delete or repair the corrupted PST, it prompts one of the below error messages:

“Error occurred during file deleting :Error 0x80040119.”

Or

“Error occurred during file deleting: The system can not find the file specified.”

Alternatively, you might receive another errors suggesting that that an error has occurred while repair and there are no more files.

Cause

Your Outlook PST is infected from viruses such as Win32/Bagle:AI, Netsky.k@mm, Win32/Mitglieder.CL etc. In most of such cases, Outlook PST is completely inaccessible and cannot be opened.

Solution

Following suggestions might help you to solve such problems:

1.Try using a more powerful and updated antivirus software to scan and fix the infected PST issues. These software usually delete the virus infected files, so make sure you have a complete backup of your data.

2.If you can open the infected PST, create a new Outlook profile which creates an empty PST automatically. Try to import data from your old PST to this new one.

3.To extract data from an inaccessible PST, you can take aid of third-party PST File Recovery Software. These utilities are exclusively built to be used in situations like virus infections. PST Recovery software use effective scanning procedures to repair a corrupted Outlook PST file. Moreover, because of their interactive and self-explaining user interface and design, you can use these applications with no hassle.


PST Recovery Tool is an advanced repair utility for corrupted Outlook PST. The PST Recovery Software supports MS Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000. This recover PST tool uses high-end file repair algorithms while maintaining the originality of PST items. The tool is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000.
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3 comments on "Tips to Solve when Antivirus Cannot Delete Virus Infected Outlook PST"
Posted by Storagecraft on Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 7:03 AM
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Hey Buddy thanks for giving tips to solve when Antivirus cannot delete Virus Infected Outlook PST. Now many people who face this problem can get rid out of it.
Posted by pravir on Friday, November 05, 2010 at 9:07 AM
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remove virus from computer
remove the folder qarantine by deleating it from c drive
Posted by Harbi Victor on Saturday, November 05, 2011 at 9:32 PM
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Re: antivirus infection
Virus attack is very common and unwanted problem, faced by computer users nowadays. It negatively affects near to all data in computer. PST file is also get affected with virus and sometimes get so badly damaged that it can not be repaired with scanpst.exe, a inbuilt tool. In this case, A third party Outlook pst repair software can only help the users like this: http://www.recover-computerdata.com/outlook-pst-repair.html

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