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**nizcreare** · 10-25-2008, 11:33 PM

My son's email account has some kind of virus bug in it. Can anyone identify what this is and how to get rid of it.

I have MSN9 and he uses one of my free email accounts with the extension of @msn.com

He has been bombarded by emails from porn sites, and what it's doing is everything you delete and move to the trash bounces back to your inbox before you can take the trash out.

I finally figured out that you can click on about 10 messages at a time, move them to the junk folder, then if I fast click I can open the junk folder, select all and hit delete. Then they are permanently gone. I have to do a few at a time, because they will roll back over to the inbox within just a few seconds if you don't hit delete in time.

When I started working on this today, there were over a thousand messages in there. I finally cleaned out all but about 30 of them by doing what I described above. He'll have to do the rest, as I don't which he wants to try to keep of those.

1. Can this ever be gotten rid of? It didn't affect his computer itself, since we both have been careful not to open any of the emails. It seems to just be hooked to the trash and junk folders. Both when opened, roll whatever is in them back to the inbox.

2. If there were emails in there from trusted sources, can or should we salvage them? or would they be infectuous too?

10-25-2008, 11:33 PM	#1
nizcreare Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 566 Senior Member	A Virus Question My son's email account has some kind of virus bug in it. Can anyone identify what this is and how to get rid of it. I have MSN9 and he uses one of my free email accounts with the extension of @msn.com He has been bombarded by emails from porn sites, and what it's doing is everything you delete and move to the trash bounces back to your inbox before you can take the trash out. I finally figured out that you can click on about 10 messages at a time, move them to the junk folder, then if I fast click I can open the junk folder, select all and hit delete. Then they are permanently gone. I have to do a few at a time, because they will roll back over to the inbox within just a few seconds if you don't hit delete in time. When I started working on this today, there were over a thousand messages in there. I finally cleaned out all but about 30 of them by doing what I described above. He'll have to do the rest, as I don't which he wants to try to keep of those. 1. Can this ever be gotten rid of? It didn't affect his computer itself, since we both have been careful not to open any of the emails. It seems to just be hooked to the trash and junk folders. Both when opened, roll whatever is in them back to the inbox. 2. If there were emails in there from trusted sources, can or should we salvage them? or would they be infectuous too?
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