Can't delete virus file with Revolution

[Mark Schonewille]

Wilhelm,

Why don't you simply tell windows to show invisible files and folders?

Best regards,

Mark Schonewille

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Op 28-aug-2007, om 18:03 heeft Wilhelm Sanke het volgende geschreven:

> The virus scanner "Spyware Sweeper" found a "NMap Win 1.2.12" virus  
> on one of my computers at
>
> "C:\WINDOWS\Installer\{CC550492-0747-48E4-A37C-5A2A0C815489} 
> \NewShortcut1.exe",
>
> but fails to quarantine or delete it, i.e. it performs the  
> operations of quarantining and deleting on that file, but next time  
> when you do a virus sweep the file is there again. This could be  
> probably a deficiency of "Spyware Sweeper", because I got other  
> problems with that program, too.
>
> Another virus scanner, "Spy Sweeper" by Webroot, however does not  
> flag this file as a virus.
>
> "C:\WINDOWS\Installer" is a "hidden folder" that is not displayed  
> when I try to access it with Windows, but I can access it using  
> Revolution and also list the subfolders - among them  
> "{CC550492-0747-48E4-A37C-5A2A0C815489}", which contains the  
> "NewShortcut1.exe" file.<snip>