Getting rid of Viruses in pst files

Chaslang helped resolved my immediate issues yesterday (Qwest claimed my T1 was sending out the Beagle (Bagle) worm and was threatening to shut my connection down. We deleted some suspicious stuff (please see thread in Spyware titled "pst infection"). He referred me here.

Basically I have 5 different viruses as well as at least two different varieties of two of those viruses. They are all contained within my pst files. I have a total of 14 pst files of which I'm sure 8 are infected. RAV online scan finds the viruses but does not clean them. Avast! finds the viruses as well and when I try to delete them I get an error message "Error 0x80040119" AVG does not find the viruses, but if I import the pst file into a new outlook profile (creating another pst file) the AVG software will clean the email if I find the message and click on it.

Last RAV online check showed 212 infected files. (I'll run another one while waiting for a response and post those results) I downloaded RAV desktop, but have not run it yet. I was looking for help in cleaning these files.

Thank you

BTW, the viruses are as follows:
1. Iframe_Exploit* - Shouldn't be possible because I'm running IE 6.0
2. Bagle : AI
3. JS/Dword.dr*
4. Win32/Mitglieder.CL
5. Win32/Mitglieder.CN
6. Netsky.k@mm

 

another way.
sort all emails by those that have attachments and delete those that have attachments.

 

Thanks for the quick reply Kodo. When I do this, I'm importing the old pst file (for example outlook4.pst) into a new profile (for example VirusCleaning) in Outlook with nothing else in my c:\documents and settings\...\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook folder and then renaming that file CLEAN1.PST and moving it to a clean folder?

My concern is that when I import the infected file back into outlook to clean it, doesn't outlook create a "new" pst file for this. Basically I have several different pst files which contain different dates of emails. What I have been doing in the past is copying the Outlook.pst, Outlook1.pst, Outlook2.pst etc to a disk and then deleting all the emails in my default outlook profile and continuing from there. Since the files have been getting so big lately (my largest is 1.9 gigs) i started backing them up on the hard drive. The viruses are in those files too.

If I import the old pst files into an empty oulook profile just to clean them, do I just rename the new pst file created after i'm done cleaning it and delete the old one? Or is there an easier way?

Thanks

 

Does AVG find the malicious code if you scan the pst file directly? You might try running a search for *.pst on your local drive, and scanning them all directly with AVG. I find sometimes that AVG will miss things if it doesn't scan them directly. It has a nice healing funtion that might be able to strip the files of malicious code and still leave them in a working state.