Unwanted File Won't Delete
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Name: Helen
Date: October 13, 2002 at 09:55:39 Pacific
Subject: Unwanted File Won't DeleteOS: Windows 98 2nd EditionCPU/Ram: ? |
Comment: 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
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Name: George
Date: October 13, 2002 at 13:48:34 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)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
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Name: Rick
Date: October 14, 2002 at 10:58:22 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)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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