300,000 emails?

I installed "Virusbarrier X5" after a friend claimed her machine caught a virus from an email I sent her.
It shows the file name on screen whilst its running as well as progress, viruses etc.
It went really quickly until it started scanning emails (with extension .emlx) and then it took 4 hours to scan over 300,000 of these files.
I checked afterwards and I only have 1500 emails in all my accounts.
So where are the 300,000 files coming from? (I did not have a virus).
Help and advise please?

Thanks for the Virus info Mulder.. I am not worried at all about Viruses but wanted to reassure myself that I hadnt infected my friend (after promoting Macs to her for a long time!).
I found the files though: 276,000 of them.
They were stored in "Notes". Although I had only about ten of them originally, it seems that either Mail or Mobile Me was spawning copies (mostly empty files) on an exponential basis.....
They did not show up in the Mail program but after a bit of clicking in the Library/Mail I found the culprit folder.
I am trying to Trash it right now (seems rather stubborn and likes its warm home on my HD).
Hopefully this will be the solution...but no! Even after trashing the "Notes/Messages" Mail Feedback still says I have 276,000 files...
I wish they would separate "Notes" into its own program (which could sync with iPhone..) and then this type of thing may not happen in the future.
(For people curious about this "Notes" are stored under "Reminders" ... in the Mailbox Pane)

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