After patiently spending time I didn't have setting up my
nephew's PC, it is now behaving very oddly. After a few
days anything with a Desktop shortcut has been deleted
(completely - not to the Recycle Bin) and free HDD space
seems to fluctuate every time you look. He's a little vague
about the timeline (in fact he's a little vague full stop but he's
family and you accept that) but it's definitely happened. One
of the first things I tried was msconfig but that's gone too,
although Win95B seems to work. Autoexc.bat and Config.bat
look OK. No "delete programs with shortcuts" line). It appears
to me like a virus (although he's got no web access it could
have come in a program or game) but I've scanned with an
up-to-date AVS and found nowt. A full media scan reports
nothing funny about the drive. So -

1) is it possible for a virus to act in this way and then delete itself

2) has anyone ever seen this happen on a Win95 machine ? I
certainly haven't and it's got me stumped for sure

Tomorrow, taking more time I haven't got, sigh, I'll re-format
and start again, but if anyone's got suggestions for somewhere
to look for a possible problem before that..........

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