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| I apologize for the following writing. It's not up to my personal expectations, but, this has been going on for a couple of month's now and I'm bored enough with it to bother you.
There was a misc. file found in the TEMP dir. Named DC_04. Don't know what it is so I delete it, and it says "This file cannot be deleted...may currently be in use...yada yada yada" Okay, fine, whatever. Reboot the machine.
And, I'll preface your queries by saying that I use Spy-Bot/Ad-Aware/Spwareblaster/NAV religiously, as in, everyday. Nothing, pristine, virginal if you will. The machine is wearing white, okay.
So, after the reboot, I get the same error message. So I move the file to the recycle bin, which I shouldn't be able to do if it's still being used by it's app. but it goes anyway. So, now it's in the r/b, but I can't empty the bin. I get the same message. I try to move the file out of the bin and it only makes a copy of the file. So, now there is 2 of 'em. DC_04 & DC_05.  And I can only <del> the copy. So, I'm thinking virus. But everything is up to date and all scans have been done so I press on.
I rename them; .old, .bak., .tmp - No Dice - won't delete. I've zipped 'em, and I've .rared them - can't delete the .zip or the .rar. and - here's the interesting part - if the file's been zipped and I move the .zip file to the r/b, when I hi-light and hit <del> it doesn't say that I can't <del> the zip but, that I can't <del> the file DC_74 (that's the copy that I'm up to now). BUT, when I open up the .zip to see the file, it's like Kaiser Soze, gone. The .zipped file is empty. But the original remains.
Anywhere I move the file, it will only move a copy. I can delete the copies, but not the original, and yet, the name of the original keeps going up by 1. I'm still thinking virus, but can't prove it.
Any ideas?
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P4 1.5 @2.4 (powerleaped)
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| Hallo,
sounds like you have to hit with a hammer on your
Hd.
when you search google,there is a Photo gallery of
dr. dernot Collins at www.louisville.edu
with dc_04.
I suppose this a virus.
Try chkdsk /r, but the best thing-if all virusscans
failed- delete all partitions, format and new install.
Please write if then the dc_04 is still there. |
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| You could try going to the Command Prompt (MSDOS Prompt) and make your way to the folder that file is in. I suppose you have it in C:\WINDOWS\TEMP, so type:
cd c:\windows\temp
and press Enter.
Then type:
attrib dc_04 -a -h
Press Enter.
Type:
del dc_04
Press Enter.
If successful, close the DOS box and reboot.
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| Since a reformat/clean install is such a PIA, I'll go with Thomas76' suggestion first and post back. Thanks.
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| Okay, Sorry it's taken so long, been busy.
I've tried Thomas76' suggestion to no avail. I get the "all files will be deleted y/n" message. Hit <y> then <enter>. Close and reboot and ...
It's still there.
Thanks anyway Thomas76.
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| Try deleting it from the recovery console.
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| Will do.. And now that Ahnold is running for office I can say...
I'll be back!
sorry.
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| Hold on a second...
If you delete a file and don't get a prompt that the process has failed, then the file should be deleted. If it comes back, it's generated by a program that runs at start up.
Which programs have you got installed?
(Check in Control Panel -- Add/Remove Programs)
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