--- Jinx <joecolquitt@CLEAR.NET.NZ> wrote: > A lady
friend has a problem with a stubborn .exe. It
> appeared
> on her PC one day, probably piggy-backed on
> something else,
> and she's prompted to run it. She'd rather not. I
> suggested she
> used SpyBot and Ad-aware on it, which she did,
> nothing ominous
> found. Someone cleaned one of these out of mine ages
> ago but
> I didn't see how it was done. I'm wondering if going
> down into

I have two suggestions:

If it's an Win9x type windows version, use a boot disk
and delete it from the command prompt.  You can create
 a boot disk (aka Startup Disk) in Control
Panel->Add/Remove Programs->Startup Diskette.  Then
just leave it in the drive and restart the PC.

If it's an NT type version of windows, you probably
need to Take Ownership of the file first, then you can
delete it.  There's an option for Take Ownership
somewhere in the Properties window (ie. right click
file and click properties).

If it's an *nix or otherwise operating system, I have
no fricken clue :)

Good luck, cheers!


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MJ Brush
LeftClick.ca Internet Media Services
mbrush@[NOSPAM]leftclick.ca

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