Gingham

Seems like your solution is similar to Peerless dual boot system, i.e. boot from a different partition or hard disk, using a different O/S, and deleting the malware.

Mind you, I feel that we single O/S, and without a system disk, people are screwed if we ever get this particular nasty piece of trash.


UK Bob

I honestly don't know if anything else would have worked if I hadn't used my Vista install disc. According to a friend of mine, the file was probably "broken" in some fashion, creating an endless loop of trying to read it by my system...that's why I couldn't delete it as it was always shown "in use". I don't think it was a virus or malware, but it was likely put on the network by some little turd looking to cause havok. The scary thing is it won't show up as anything to worry about when you scan it before opening it. I don't know how to prevent this from happening again, other than to completely avoid video files from LW.