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April 22, 2008 at 07:20 PM
jdclyde

Got a file I can’t delete

by jdclyde . Updated 18 years, 2 months ago

System is a Dell optiplex 160L running WinXpProSP2.

One of the boys was gaming and got tricked into downloading and running a hack.

Now there is a file called new.exe in the “my documents” folder.

I can not delete it because it says it is in use. Same if I try to rename or move it.

I booted to a knoppix liveCD and tried to delete the file, but is would not allow me to delete it. no reason was given.

Don’t see anything in the list of processes that looks out of place.

Any ideas, other than the format route? I am going to end up doing that, but would like to figure out how to kill this first.

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This is my home system, I have full admin rights, as well as full physical access.[/i]

Thanks,

jd

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