Oh and GrandpaBW, Just formatting your harddrive may not get rid of some viruses and hacks. formating a disc just changes the begining of the line and fools the computer into thinking the entire line is blank when in fact it still holds all the information it did befor the format took place. there is low level formats that write al 0's to the drive but can also not get rid of everything. Here is a link to a program that I use that erases the entire drive it was made for erasing goverment drives when they were through with them to make sure thier information could not be extracted off the harddrive. Now to guarantee total erase of the drive it takes 26 passes in the highest mode which take 7-15days you probley do not want to use those settings. Myself I use the quickerase mode with 1 pass. this can very on time depending on amount of information on the disc and size of the drive and speed of computer. It can take from 30 min to a few hours. I have never had a problem with a hack reappearing after reinstallation of OS. Its truly a great program and can be downloaded in a copy to floppy ver. or a burn to cd ver. and it is selfbooting after copying it to floppy or burning it to a disc insert it into the compter and turn it on. then use the very simpl menu to erase your harddrive returning it to a new like state. http://dban.sourceforge.net/ Peace out all take care of you and your mates. that is all!!
Same issue... scenario... file is on a networked drive... H:\IS\HOME\STOPDC\Toolbars\Internet\RX Store Layouts.url safe mode is obviously not going to work because the file is not on my computer.... I am the owner of the folder... (777 access) I can delete all the other files in the internet folder, but not this one. tried using short names, and it says that it does not exsist. BTW grandpa... its not a virus
Oh well. I gave up almost 5 months ago, when reckless2 failed to answer my question. Yeah, the thread is almost 5 months old.
