Mgas -

If you're using Outlook Express, the inbox is a separate file, and keeping it empty will minimize what gets quarantined.

If you're using Outlook, all your emails, your address book, and any calendar and messaging features you use are apparently all within a single file, and moving messages to a different folder won't help. If one message goes to quarantine, the whole file, and all Outlook content, goes.

I haven't seen anything on what happens if you use another email program. Since the common "email" format lends itself to database file storage, what affects one message may take others with it; but the extent of the problem, if any, hasn't been reported.

The problem probably doesn't appear, at least in the ways reported, if you just use your browser to view email, but I've seen no comment on that. Since that method leaves all the messages on the server, and makes it difficult to actually have the messages stored on your own computer, they should be out of reach of the OneCare AV functions on your machine, except as individual messages.(????)

John