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thunderbird package

My anti virus is telling me I have a possible virus in it. I uninstalled it. And reinstalled it, but it comes back as it was before.

Asked by oocevin

How do I uninstall Thunderbird and have a fresh thunderbird
reinstalled so I can get rid of the possible virus?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

If the virus is in your email then simply delete the email.

Reinstalling thunderbird will not delete the virus if its in your email, deleting the email will solve it.

You can reinstall thunderbird you can run:

sudo apt-get --purge remove thunderbird; sudo apt-get --purge autoremove; sudo apt-get clean; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install thunderbird

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oocevin (ccct007) said : 		#2

It said it was in my inbox and one in my deleted box.
I emptied both and ran the anti virus again and it
said it was still in there.

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Ok then reinstalling Thunderbird will do nothing, the same inbox data will be used and removing and reinstalling the app will not change that.

Boot to live CD, install antivirus there and scan your internal partition which will now simply be seen as data. This may help. You could also sequentially save each attachment from your email to your home folder then scan it, you can then delete the email once you hit the culprit.

If the system says it's a windows virus then you don't care. Ubuntu will not be affected by windows viruses as it isn't windows.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#4

Please give us more info about the virus name and the antivirus you are using...

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oocevin (ccct007) said : 		#5

That is what I did and it is gone now.

Thank you