- Virus restarts machine when deleting
- Posted by Dave on February 22nd, 2004
I got an email with the I-Worm Sven B attached as an exe. I saved it to
c:\temp, identified it with my virus checker, then deleted it in Explorer.
Or tried to: as soon as I hit delete the computer restarted. It was no sweat
to delete it from the DOS prompt, but my question is this: how does it
restart the computer without even being run?
btw Running XP Pro SP1
- Posted by °Mike° on February 22nd, 2004
Are you certain that the restart was not just a
coincidence with the deleting of the file?
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:10:18 -0000, in
<%U8_b.17$6l4.3@newsfe1-win>
Dave scrawled:
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Basic computer maintenance
http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/maintenance.html
- Posted by Dan Shea on February 22nd, 2004
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:10:18 -0000, "Dave" <abc@wgertsyf.co.uk> wrote:
It doesn't. If you don't run it, it doesn't do ANYthing except take
up hard drive space.
More likely the reboot was caused by something else -- possibly when
you accessed the file to delete it your antivirus scanner
automatically kicked in, tried to scan it, and coughed up a hairballl,
forcing the reboot.
Cheers,
dan
