Thread: Forcing delete
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Old 12-04-2003, 01:50 PM   #1
SpiritWarrior
Jack Burton
 

Join Date: May 31, 2002
Location: Ireland
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Is there a way to force-delete a file? I downloaded a game demo from Kazaa the other day since I could resume the large download when I wanted to...big mistake. It wasn't even a working demo but seemed to be an anonymous .exe. Well, my cousin ran the damned thing (I make a point of never running executables if I am not sure) and a small dos window blinked up then dissappeared. That's all it did and does. Problem is when I try to delete it it says cannot delete since It's being used by a program etc.

I've tried a clean boot of XP using system services only - still can't delete it. I'm now beginning to wonder if this is a malicious program of some form, I really shoulda went directly to the game site and downloaded from there. Any help and/or safeguard measures would be appreciated.
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