Serious Difficulty With Mail

Hi All,
I'm having seroius difficulty with Mail. Every time I start it up, it crashes within 30 seconds and I have to Force Quit every time. It has all the looks of a virus!!!!
How do I erradicate this or how do I go about reinstalling Mail. I've repaired permissions and disk (there were no errors on the disk). I've also downloaded McAfee Virex and it found nothing - I'm running out of ideas.
Can anyone help???
Thanks,
Seán.
PowerBook G4 1.5GHz, 512MB, 80GB, AE Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Don't waste your time being concerned about a virus causing this. If/when the first OS X virus is identified, it will be all over the newswires and the internet (including these Discussions) in a matter of hours if not minutes since it will be big news.
Which Virex version did you download and install? Did you confirm the version you installed is compatible with Tiger?
Re-installing the Mail.app rarely resolves such a problem.
Quit Mail first and using the Finder, go to Home > Library > Mail. Move the Mail folder to the Desktop.
Launch Mail and a new Mail folder and account named folders within will be created automatically. All account mailboxes will be empty and no user created "On My Mac" mailboxes will be available but this will determine if there is a problem in the old Mail folder moved to the Desktop.
If this resolves the crashing problem, you can replace the various files that stores Rules, Signatures and Junk Mail "learned" settings, etc. and then import various mailboxes from the old Mail folder a few at a time to determine which files and/or mailboxes are causing the problem.
If this doesn't resolve the crashing problem, with the Mail.app quit and using the Finder, go to Home > Library > Mail. Delete the newly created Mail folder. Move the old Mail folder back to the same location at Home > Library.
Copy the Mail folder and place the copy on the Desktop for backup purposes.
Using the Finder, go to Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.mail.plist. Move the com.apple.mail.plist file to the Desktop.
Note: Moving the com.apple.mail.plist file out of the Preferences folder will require re-entering all email account information when re-launching Mail.
Launch Mail and decline any prompt to import mailboxes. After re-entering all email account information the same as before, the Mail.app should rediscover the existing account named folder(s) and mailboxes at Home > Library > Mail.
After confirming all mailboxes were successfully rediscovered, you can delete the copy of the Mail folder and old com.apple.mail.plist file from the Desktop.

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