How to remove a virus from a .pst file

A long and laborious job! To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks. Do any of you fine folks know of a better way to do this? Popular Topics in Antivirus.

Spiceworks Help Desk. The help desk software for IT. Track users' IT needs, easily, and with only the features you need. Learn More ». Fletcher Oct 25, at UTC. Fletcher Oct 26, at UTC. Thai Pepper. Fletcher Oct 29, at UTC. You have not mentioned your version of Outlook or Exchange yet, which would defintely help when offering a solution.

My recommendation; push a prf-file to the clients to reconfigure their mail profile. Take all the pst-files from your network and import them into the mailbox of that user on the Exchange server. How to achieve this exactly depends completely on what and why you are trying to achieve what you are asking and the versions you are using of Outlook and Exchange.

Hello there, Which tool and best method to clean. Which the best tool to clean the data? Thanks a lot. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Praseetha K. Hi helpsp, You may refer the following link and try running the Malicious Software Removal Tool to remove the malware from the system.

If you have any questions or need further help on this issue, please feel free to post back. All messages will be scanned for malware. Now does that mean it will immediately catch PST imports in Azure? Don't know. But if a message is infected. AndyDavid , thank you for your answer. I also suspected that the EOP intercepts infected mails. But I did not find any explicit information if this is also true for the PST import function, because technically the mails get into the mailbox via a different way.

I'm not aware of any Azure processes that does this. And I suspect there is none as it would slow down processing. I suspect has enough confidence in the ExO anti-malware protection that they know they will catch it there either when a user access the message or via a scheduled scan or if they resend it. HI DavidJacobs Only when the messages are sent or received.