> As one of these PNX files seems to contain a virus I would obviously like to delete it, especially if it is some sort of orphaned/unused
> file. But I do not want to mess up Pegasus Mail by deleting files it is expecting to exist.

Checkout Han v.d. Bogaerde's Pegasus mail Links at http://www.vandenbogaerde.net/pegasusmail/
He has provided a lot of information on Pegasus Mail for Windows including all filenames and file extensions.

*.PNX         WinPMail v4.0+     

PNX files are the RTF version of the message bodies of any queued and draft messages that contain formatted text. The name part of the file is the same as the corresponding .PMO or .PMX or .PMW file. There should be no .PNX files without a corresponding other file.

I really doubt that this is a virus in the file that has been setting around for 8-9 years, more likely that the anti-virus software is messed up,  but you can delete it.

An antivirus scan has identified a virus in a .PNX file in my Pegasus mail folder.

I examined the contents of the file using a text editor, and it seems to be a RTF format email message with a small section of hex characters which presumably contains the virus. The file also seems to be about 8 years old.

The info I could find about PNX files is that they contain a draft message and there should be another file with the same filename but a different filename extension. However the message is not something I have ever written, and there is no other file with the same name. There is also about 5 other .PNX files in the folder which are all 8 or 9 years old and none of them have a corresponding file of the same name (but different filename extension).

As one of these PNX files seems to contain a virus I would obviously like to delete it, especially if it is some sort of orphaned/unused file. But I do not want to mess up Pegasus Mail by deleting files it is expecting to exist.

Is it safe to delete these .PNX files?

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Is it safe to delete these .PNX files?

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Absolutely. To be on the safe side, though, you could consider backing up the entire pmail directory and deleting the backup afterwards once everything appears to work as normal.

Cheers!

Thanks. I've deleted them and all seems OK. :)