Re: hpothb07.dat & hpothb07.tif

From: Don Phillipson (nospam_at_wanted.tnx)
Date: 04/10/04 

Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 08:03:16 -0400

"fred c" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1636d01c41ed2$0a2467e0$a001280a@phx.gbl...

> not so sure. These files are of no practical use. They
> reside in start up, along with needed hp psc files (all
> in one printer). What could any good use come out of a
> replicating file. I have had as many as 50+ of each
> (.dat & .tif) versions from one day to the next. It has
> took many hrs. to delete the copies several times. One
> laptop of mine an older presario was completely overrun
> with this "disease" that I had to use a restore disk
> which eliminated all files. I was told to uncheck the
> box in msconfig. Symatec and Mcafee both give the
> infected machines a clean bill of health.

DOS is your friend.
1. To get a list of all current instances
DIR HPOTHB07.* /S
2. To send the list to a text file
DIR HPOTHB07.* /S > FILNAM.BAT
3. Then edit this FILNAM.BAT
to delete every instance.
Then run it.
4. Search all startup files for calls to
HPOTHB07 and remove those.
5. Reboot

The point is that DOS ignores Windows'
prohibition against deleting from disk a
file currently loaded (which in this case
can perhaps spawn duplicates.) 

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)