Re: Weird file on my desktop

From: Bill (acadeckiathotmaildotcom)
Date: 09/23/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:47:07 -0500

That's a no-go. Will not delete in safe mode either. Same error
message...."Cannot delete file - cannot read from source file or disk" any
other suggestions? 

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> "Bill" <acadeckiathotmaildotcom> wrote in message 
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>> Got a weird one here hopefully someone can help...I run XP pro with SP2 
>> and use outlook express as my mail client. I received an email from my 
>> boss and it had a file attached with some work related data in a pdf 
>> document. the file for some reason had an extension of (59.7KB) 
>> parenthesis and all and a space before the first parenthesis. Outlook 
>> express would not let me simply
>> open this file like normal, I got an error message saying I had no 
>> associated file type for it (of course, who does?) so I saved it to my 
>> desktop. When I did there were 2 files instead, one transparent like a 
>> hidden or system file and a size of 0KB?? I deleted both files when I was 
>> done and after a reboot the transparent file came back and will not go 
>> away!! when I try to delete or move it I get an error message stating 
>> that the source file cannot be found. I'm sure I could probably hide it, 
>> but that still doesn't fix the issue. Any help anyone? BTW Norton 
>> antivirus 2002 always updated gives a clean bill of health, so not a 
>> virus.....
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>> Remember life is not a box of chocolates it's a jar of
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>
> you could boot to safe mode ...navigate to c:\documents and 
> settings\*user*\desktop
>
> and delete the file
>

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