How do I clean a virus within an inbox or just clean only that infectedattachment or LOCATE AND dele

Hi

I use Seamonkey (Mozilla ) mail and browser - SeaMonkey 1.0.4., on a Win
XPP machine

The Help about says "..Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060729 SeaMonkey/1.0.4..."

When I run a manual disk scan I often see my Symantec (Version
10.0.0.359) say that an entire inbox or a file withing a mail folder is
infected and quarantine the entire Inbox /or that entire file with 100s
if not 1000s of mail

I understand that some virus must be comming in thru pop mail, but do
NOT know how to attack the specific mail / sender /or/ specific attachments

I have ENABLED Internet E Mail auto Protect in symantec. Under this tab,
I have chosen "..scan files withing compressed files.." - 3 levels deep.

How do I clean a virus within an inbox or just clean only that infected
attachment or LOCATE AND delete just that attachment ? Deleting or
quarantining the entire Inbox is NOT solving my problem. I just loose my
entire history.

I'm looking for a solution that will clean or delete ONLY specific mail
or attachments.

any pointers, URL, advise would be most appreciated

Thanks in advance
Regards

 

The only way I can think of is to, in TB, look at each e-mail
message that has an attachment and delete it if it looks
suspicious or useless.

Compact your folders afterward.