Unusual virus in email?

From: Michael Rimar <mrmr_at_berkeley.edu>
Date: Tue Aug 10 2004 - 12:09:34 PDT

Hi

very unexpected activity...user suddenly got a message that toc for
In box needed to be rebuilt, he said OK and when done the In box was
empty.

In fact the In.mbx file is zero bytes.

But now we have found that In.mbx is in quarantine! Why would NAV
move the whole file into quarantine and not just the infecting file.
We suspect that somehow the virus is not an attachment but rather
some kind of scripting/commands within the email.

What is the risk of Restoring the quarantined file, deleting recent
junk emails and re-running NAV?

Help!

thanks

Michael

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