re EVE.-◘- : Trojan?

From: taurarian (taurarian_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/22/03 

Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 23:25:35 -0700

How do I delete an "undeletable" file?
Open the Command Prompt window and leave it open.
Close all open programs.
Click Start, Run and enter TASKMGR.EXE
Go to the Processes tab and End Process on Explorer.exe.
Leave Task Manager open.
Go back to the Command Prompt window and change to the
folder the AVI (or undeletable file) is in.
At the command prompt type DEL <filename> where
<filename> is the file you want to delete.
Go back to Task Manager, click File, New Task and enter
EXPLORER.EXE to restart the GUI shell.
Close Task Manager.

If that don't work have a look at this link.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;320081
You Cannot Delete a File or a Folder

>-----Original Message-----
>This file: EVE.-- cannot be deleted from my system. I
>have no access to it, i.e. cannot change attributes,
>cannot perform file commands on it. I think it came from
>an MMORPG that I have been beta testing EVE: The second
>genesis. I copyed the folder EVE to the root folder to
>access a special test server. When I started having
>problems with the client, I attempted to delete this
>folder and all files were deleted except this one. I
>cannot scan it with NAV because it does not access it. Is
>there any way to manually change the file attributes? I
>tried Safe mode and MS DOS, but access was denied in both
>OS's. I am at a loss, the dev's at CCP have no idea what
>it is and are dening that it came from their servers.
>I believe it may be a trojan because wehen I tried to
>shut down yesterday, I got the system message that other
>users are connected to the system. I am the only one on
>my home network at the time and the other account in XP
>was in use. I password protected all accounts and my DSL
>gateway, and the break in's have stopped, but I can't
>delete this file. Any suggestions?
>
>.
>

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