Re: Suspect File
- From: "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I.can@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:04:18 +1000
<die.spam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1153179136.355413.194540@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi I downloaded a file from download.com the other day, as it was
completing avast! says its infected and i chose to delete the virus.
the file (called setup.exe) still remained in my download directory, i
couldnt delete because it said it its in use, well i have rebooted,
rebooted in safe mode and still can;t delete it, its not a startup
item, its not referenced anywhere in the regsitry, i have run a boot
time virus scan, full spyware scan with spysweeper, still same message
when i try and delete it, its reporting its size now as 0kb, can't
think of what else to do. i am running a firewall and have carefully
watched outgoing and incoming connections and can't see anything unsual
there so i think its possibly just a file system error..
I have also tried to remove it from dos, however when i choose dos from
the boot menu it just loads xp and gives me a dos prompt (not exactly
the same thing) and because its on a drive partition i can't access it
(can only get c:)
is there a way to get into full dos before xp loads??
Flamer.
Boot the machine with your WinXP CD and select Repair
and Recovery Console. You can now delete the file. And
by the way: Your posts become a lot more readable when
you start your sentences with capital letters instead of just
stringing many sentences along over a whole paragraph. You
would want to make it easy for respondents to read about
your problem, wouldn't you?
.
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