How do I delete an infected piece of mail in my mac mailbox?

I have bitdefender for mac and it has found tp pieces of mail in my saved mail boxes and it won't let me delete it. It says I don't have permission to delete or move this mail. I have reindexed the box but it did not work.
any suggestions?
thanks
Liza

I've never heard of bitdefender, and I'm familiar with most of the major AV programs available for the Mac.  There's gotta be a reason for that.  You should read my Mac Malware Guide, and if you still want AV software, you may want to consider getting something else, like the free and excellent ClamXav.
Regarding the mail, it's fairly common to find messages with Windows malware attached in the Junk or Trash mailboxes.  That kind of spam arrives all the time.  It can't hurt you, though, and I've never yet heard of any Mac malware being delivered via e-mail.  To get rid of it, find the affected messages in Mail, delete them and then empty the trash.  I don't know how bitdefender works, but in ClamXav, you can get information about malware that has been found, like where the file is.  If you can do that, find the message file (which should end in .emlx), double-click it to open the message in Mail (don't worry, opening a message with a malware attachment in Mail is not dangerous) and delete it.
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