A nasty burrowing program

Discussion in 'Computer Science & Culture' started by esp, Mar 9, 2002.

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  1. esp Registered Senior Member

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    Ladies, Gentlemen.

    I require your assistance.

    A site I have visited in the past has apparently deposited not one but two unwanted programs in my startup bar.

    I have tried: deleting it, moving it, uninstalling it, removing it, using dos shell to kill it and am out of options.

    In windows I am given the message Make sure the volume is not write-protected or the file is not in use.

    Dos struggles to find it and when found manually, the file name contains a tilde and refuses to come into the command line.

    When I try to erase I can't.

    Please respond.

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  3. Avatar smoking revolver Valued Senior Member

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    some things you may have tried,but here it goes->
    1) ctrl-alt-del and shutdoen all programs you don' t know
    then try to delete those files

    2)in DOS you apparently couldn' t delete because filenames were too long. rename those files through windows to be >8 symbols long and try to delete them in DOS thn.

    3) delete all signs of those programs through registry
    (regedit (soft) recommended)

    I duno if this would work, but you can try

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  5. Avatar smoking revolver Valued Senior Member

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    please post the URL of tht site so we all would be aware of it
    thnx, Avatar
     
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  7. Pollux V Ra Bless America Registered Senior Member

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    hmmm, maybe if you go to the windows folder under your hard drive and find it you may be able to delete it that way.
     
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