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Tim Cowley
Tim Cowley
Recently, I created an empty text file on my desktop, filled it with random junk (a very long LOOOOL) and renamed it to sasser.exe. I sent it to a friend as a joke; he declined (surprisingly). Next day, I booted my computer, noticed the file on the desktop and decided to get rid of it. Left click, shift+delete... "Cannot delete sasser: It is being used by another person or program." O______O I tried rebooting; no effect. I tried simply renaming it. Wouldn't let me. I shut down everything on my computer...same message. To this day (about a month later) I have been unable to delete the file. I have no anti-virus software installed, so that can't be the problem. I think I just created the best virus evar, and managed to infect myself with it. HELP!!11
Ra
Ra
Have you tried rebooting in safe mode? Boot disk? Linux?
Ra
Andrew Russell
Andrew Russell
Use a boot disk and delete it from there. Or you could try safe mode?

EDIT: Just beaten - but - one thing - if your filesystem is NTFS, don't use Linux (unless you're feeling lucky)
Tim Cowley
Tim Cowley
Safe mode didn't work, but Copy Lock did the trick. Cheers [grin]

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