How to repair virus infected PST in Outlook 2007

MS Outlook is the one of the popular email application in the world which is widely used to for managing and organizing emails, contacts, meetings, journals along with various other tasks. Outlook application works as a very vital component in maintaining corporate communication. Here it is necessary to mention that all the Outlook information is stored in a PST (Personal Storage Table) file or PST file. PST file can sometimes get corrupted there by making the PST file inaccessible. There may be various reasons for PST file corruption such as virus infections, abrupt system shutdown, power outages, human errors, etc. In such cases, you should take appropriate steps to repair Outlook PST.

Suppose you are using MS Outlook 2007. You got an email which contains a document from an unknown source. When you open the document it fails to open and gives and error message as mentioned below.

“Your Anti-Virus software has blocked the file you were trying to open.

You should ensure your Anti-Virus software is fully up to date and try opening the file again. It is important to note that the blocked file may also contain a virus which your Anti-Virus software has not been able to remove. In this case you should treat the file with caution.”

Cause:

For the above mentioned error message there could be the one of the following reasons:

• Incompatibility issues between antivirus and MS Office program.

• The antivirus is does not have the definition to remove the virus from the attached document.

• The Outlook PST file get corrupted.

Resolution:

To resolve this error, there are following methods that you can use:

• If the document is infected by a virus, then you should download the latest definitions means solution of the antivirus from site.

• If your Outlook PST file is corrupted then you can use the Inbox Repair (Scanpst.exe) tool which may repair the corrupted components .

However, if you are not able to resolve this issue then you can use a third-party Outlook repair 2007 software to perform PST recovery. Such tools are read-only and are fully able to repair PST files as these uses highly efficient scanning algorithms.