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Outlook Express Hangs due to a Virus

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Configuring an anti-virus program to scan incoming and outgoing e-mails of Outlook Express can corrupt a DBX folder, but it is still recommended to install one such application to detect the possible viruses. Most of the Outlook Express users believe that firewall can set against all Internet vulnerabilities that prevent the infection that can occur due to viruses and trojans, which is not true. When a virus is encountered, a firewall just alarms and not actually protects you from virus. Hence, there are chances that your DBX file might get corrupt if you solely rely on your firewall for preventing virus infection. To repair such corrupt DBX files, you need to use DBX Repair software.

A virus received in an Outlook Express e-mail can only spread its infection when you open the associated attachment. For more clarification, consider a case when you observe one or more e-mail IDs to be the root of garbage e-mails. Thus, you decide to clean them up. Later, when cleaning up those e-mail messages, you open a suspect attachment. After you do so, you observe that Outlook Expres no longer functions properly.

Each time, when you try to open Outlook Express, it comes with ‘Not Responding’ status with two options to ‘End Now’ or ‘Cancel’. Clicking the ‘End Now’ option exits from Outlook Express. After some time, you receive an Internet Security alert that defines a Trojan Hore rule, such as ‘Default Block Backdoor/SubSeven Trojan horse’ or the like.

Explanation

Such problems occur when you have not installed any anti-virus software to prevent against viruses. Trojan alert indicate that only a Firewall has been installed.

Outlook Express DBX file(s) have gone corrupted and thus you need to delete, restore or Repair DBX File. When you delete any DBX file, Outlook Express recreates it as you start the application again. However, there is no built-in utility that  might allow you to repair the corrupted DBX file. To Restore DBX e-mails by repairing the folder, you need to take the aid of a third-party application.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook Express Recovery is the finest utility that scans and repairs corrupted DBX file(s) created with Outlook Express 5.x and Outlook Express 6.x. This DBX Repair software can repair or restore DBX file using the most effective plus safe scanning algorithms. The utility extracts the lost e-mails as .dbx and .eml file(s).