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August 17th, 2004, 02:52 PM

dmb_swede

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file wont delete

well i dl'ed a windows media file from limewire...ive read many message boards and took all their suggestions but none worked from me....it should be a wmv file but wont play and shows up as 0 bytes...i tried safe mode...command from start run...eraser and hjack this...also antivirus..but eraser said nothing to delete yet it's still on there....the error message displayed shows it as cannot find specified file make sure you have the correct file or path.....if anyone has any suggestions they would greatly be appreciated...someone said it might be spyware but spybot doesnt detect it
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August 18th, 2004, 01:13 PM

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More than likely the file has hooked into a system process file. You can attempt to find which process file by looking at dependencies for running services. A sure way to get rid of this file but much more difficult and time consuming is to slave this hard drive in another machine and delete the file.

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