<font color=skyblue>My notepad.exe is no longer on my PC.

Can anyone explain that one?

Maybe this??? http://www.pchell.com/virus/qaz.shtml

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[ 06-28-2004, 08:36 PM: Message edited by: Larry_OHF ]

i hate manual removal.. just wanna say good luck.. i must say larry, what websites do you go to? i remember you having 6 spyware programs and bunch of anti-virus links and its still not enough for ya. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Just remember to turn off the auto-recovery in case the trojan got itself inside there too.

well, my notepad.exe disappeared too, I just got a friend to send me another copy.

<font color=skyblue>No virus was found and if I type in notepad on the run command, I can access it, but if I do a search for notepad or any .exe that has notepad name...it is not there.

Weird, eh?</font>

Notepad.exe should be right in your C:WINDOWS folder. If it's not there, I can send you my copy, if you like.

not weird, it has been misplaced ;) try running it, and seeing if you can find where it is located now, worse comes to worse, just have someone send you a new one, and place it in the program file

maybe it is an xp error. It happened to me to and I didn't get a virus at the time. Just get someone to send you another copy, il give you a copy of mine, or you can get Arledrians etc.

edit: Maybe the .exe file extension has been renamed to something else, which would make it unrecognizable.

[ 06-28-2004, 05:13 PM: Message edited by: RoSs_bg2_rox ]

Weird. Perhaps you've flipped a switch in Windows that tells it to ignore certain file types when you do a search.

As long as it's there, you should be fine. But I'd be looking for what other strangeness may appear....

<font color=skyblue>Ok, that got me to it, though I am surprised to have found it. I did a search and could not. Also, I was mistakenly looking in system and system32 folders for this.

So, what has happened is that the shortcuts no longer take me to the .exe, so I have to go back through and redirect it to the right place.

Thanks. That was a wierd glitch.</font>