How to delete particular mail in Outlook Inbox.dbx?

Question

My NOD32 find virus in some mail in Outlook Inbox.dbx. That's a mail three years ago and I can't find it from anywhere in Outlook. And the size of the Inbox is very large. Is there any software to delete mail in Inbox.dbx?

Answer 1

You mean Outlook Express, right? Have you checked Deleted Items and Drafts too? If you can't find that particular mail, you've probably deleted it but it stays in the Inbox.dbx file. You can try to remove it by compacting your Outlook Express files:

- Open your Outlook Express

- from File-menu select Folder and Compact All

- rescan your files to see if that mail disappeared