C:\w.exe

Viruses and worms
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I have no idea what this is. I did a general search under “google” and got many hits, but nothing comes up in any scans I’ve done… but yet the file is there. I checked today (July 12th 2005) and it shows ‘accessed’ July 13th 2005! The file is 0KB in size and I’ve tried with no success at just deleting it (always no access).

If anyone could help me out with this one it would be greatly appreciated since I’m not even sure its a virus/worm/trojan… but I want to be sure. I’ll need some help with how to remove it if it is a virus/worm/trojan.

Thanks for taking the time to read my post, and any help offered.
K

2

Make sure the attributes of the file are not set to read-only and that you have the apropiate permissions. Then delete the file.

3

Nope tried that, it was showing as ‘Archive’ and I unselected it and when I tried to delete it the reply was “it is being used by another person or program”. So no joy that way either.

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"it is being used by another person or program"
There is your solution. Shutdown the application (or process) that is using it before trying to delete it. You may be able to delete it if you boot in safe mode.