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by evsears

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My son has a Pansonic Tuff Talker (w/a Touch Screen). All of a sudden it started duplicating the desktop shortcuts (17 times each) and wound up deleting everything in My Documents, including subdirectories and their contents. We checked w/Norton and no virus. Any ideas?

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by evsears

DKlippert

Thanks for the attempted assist but I ran Norton (yes, it is updated) and there is no virus.

by sgt_shultz

wowee. you absolutely SURE no virus? you have the latest definitions downloaded? you've scanned at the command prompt by booting from norton CD, or diskette? or in safe mode? i never heard of such a thing that wasn't a virus...if you would like morehelp with searching for a virus, let us know...off the top of my head i would suspect w32magistr...
sorry if this doesn't help and good luck...

by evsears

SGT Shultz

Yep, checked everything I can find. It further baffles the mind in that it disappeared after I rebooted changing the msconfig. I started with a Selective Startup and unselected Win.INI and Start.ini. Then after everything cameup, I changed msconfig back to Normal. Now everything works. At least for the time being. Never heard of a virus doing that either. I have no idea either. Totally mind-boggling. Thanks for the assist though.

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