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Old August 18th, 2007
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Hope someone can help me out here. I downloaded a short .mpg file ( 4.2 MB) from Limewire, and scanned it with NOD. No virus indicated. I tried opening it, and it ended up being a short banner ad for a stupid adult site. Now I can't delete the file. I've tried everything I can think of, including safe mode, logging on as an administrator, all of the various file shredding programs, etc. When I click on delete through windows explorer, I get a progress bar showing up, but it just goes on forever with zero progress reported. Any file deleting program simply hangs, including hijackthis...I've done a complete system scan of my hard drive, and there are no viruses. I can't even delete the folder the .mpg file was downloaded to. Please help! The file in in my user profile, and now it's showing up in !Killbox as well since I tried using that program to get rid of it.
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Leaves you with the following list of programs to try:

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/(free)

http://www.ewido.com(>>now called AVG Anti Spyware<< free 30 day trial which still can be used and updated after the trial ended-the best in my opinion)

http://www.ccleaner.com/download/(free)

Spybot - Search & Destroy (FREE)
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not to sound smug, but this is a prime reason to have a dual boot system...deletion 'remotely' of a file like this is easy...
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CCleaner didn't remove it, and neither did any of the other programs mentioned. It doesn't show up as a virus or malware of any kind. I just don't understand what kind of a file this thing is that it won't go away.
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I don't know if this will work, but someone recently posted it as a solution for a file they couldn't delete.

"Drag it to your desktop and delete it from there".

Can't hurt, might work.
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try hitting ctrl-alt-delete at the same time...this will bring up your task manager..take a looksy and see if you can identify a process using said file...
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It doesn't seem to matter whether I try to delete the file, drag it to the desktop, rename it...whatever...it just opens a window stating Windows is calculating time required to move/delete/recycle...no progress happens, just the green bar endlessly cycling...
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By now it should be clear that this is some sort of malicious file behaving that way.

Hence you'll have to take your chance and seek help at the tech forum I gave you the link to...

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if the file is being used, then there is a process using it...have you tried viewing the task manager yet?
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I have looked in task manager. There's no clear indication of any particular program using the file. I'd assume it would be a program like quicktime or something like that. Is there some way of finding out exactly what program might be using a particular file?
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