Antivirus Locked in.mbx??

[bluenoser337]

Norton Antivirus found a virus in incoming e-mail and apparently "locked" the in.mbx file. When Eudora (6.1) starts it immediately gives error #13 stating that the file is "read only" or "locked". I then get the unhandled exception message and Eudora shuts down. OS is XP Pro. I need access to this mbx but can't figure out how to repair it. Any assistance greatly appreciated!

 

[jrbarnett]

This sounds odd. Eudora stores attachments in the ATTACH folder under the main folder by default.

Suggest you try the following:
1) Have Norton do a full scan of the machine and clean anything it finds. Try reloading Eudora at this stage.

2) If there's still a problem, rename in.toc to in.old and then reload Eudora. This will force Eudora to regenerate the table of contents for the inbox.

3) As a last resort, the .mbx files are plain text; you can load them into Notepad and view the contents and extract the message contents.

John

 

[bluenoser337]

Had Eudora rebuild the TOC but then when opening the "in.mbx" it reported that the file was either "read only" or "locked"...and I got the unhandled exception again. All I had to do was uncheck the "read only" in the file properties...and now all is well!