If the mail was important to you, you could download DBXpress and run it in
Recover from Disk mode unless the scanning has overwritten the info in the
files with "zeroes."

Don't be uncomfortable with disabling email scanning. Even Symantec admits
it is not needed:

quote Is my computer still protected against viruses if I disable Email
Scanning?
Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against viruses that
are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect scans
incoming files as they are saved to your hard drive, including email and
email attachments. Email Scanning is just another layer on top of this. To
make sure that Auto-Protect is providing the maximum protection, keep
Auto-Protect enabled and run LiveUpdate regularly to ensure that you have
the most recent virus definitions. /endquote

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...= bar_sch_nam

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Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
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Thanks.



"ionamic" wrote in message
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Thank you Jim for the info. I am sure that Norton AV is the culprit. I
had suddenly received a bunch of virus attacks over the past few days
and I WAS scanning in-coming e-mail. I am unccomfortable about turning
off the scanning.

I don't have much hope of retrieving lost e-mail at this point. Live
and learn!
Thank You
Ionamic


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ionamic
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