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Name: Helen
Date: October 13, 2002 at 09:55:39 Pacific
Subject: Unwanted File Won't Delete
OS: Windows 98 2nd Edition
CPU/Ram: ?
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Help! I use Kazaa and wanted a picture of David Bowie for my website, so I found what i thought was a picture of him which turned out to be porn. Or at least i think it is - it's an image file in a form I'm not familiar with (.png??) and just says 'generating preview' rather than an image. I don;t want this on my computer but when I try to delete it it gives me the standard 'Access is denied..make sure the disk is not full/write protected/in use' message. As far as I can tell it is not, but I cannot find a way to erase the file. Is it a form of a virus? Please help me get rid of it!


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Response Number 1
Name: George
Date: October 13, 2002 at 13:48:34 Pacific
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Hi Helen,

PNG is a common file format on UNIX /Linux machines.

Did you check the properties? What Flags are set? RO SYS ?

How did you try do delete thsi file?


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Response Number 2
Name: Rick
Date: October 14, 2002 at 10:58:22 Pacific
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A standard file, image or otherwise would let you delete it, unless it's a program actually running. Sounds like good ole Kazaa sent out another virus to me.

Use task mgr to see if a process is hung up trying to open the image, if not, I'd say virus.


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