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I downloaded Lord of the Rings.exe, which I was lead to believe was the PC game,I tried running it, froze, crash restart, I have tried many things, I cannot delete it, move it, rename it, cant even highlight the damn thing. Its in my shared folder, and sometimes I cannot even open the folder without crashing. tryed deleting it through kazaa, and other programs. The point is I cant go near this file without crashing... WHAT do I do?!
have you a good antivirus installed?
if not, get an antivirus like norton or avg, update the definitions and scan your system
this file sounds rather suspicious
what size is the file?
I have a fully updated Mcafee proffesional but it hasnt picked up any viruses, the program is 535,885kb
could be that its being accessed by windows for some reason, press control alt del and see if anything related to it is running in processes if so close it, see if there anything that unusually named and close them, then try deleting file, you could also delete it in safe mode or search for it using search function in windows and delete from there or do wot i do right click the file "cut" and "paste" it straight in bin. does sound like a dodgy file.
it may be worth scanning for trojans too...
most standard antivirus programs aren't great against trojans
here is a free, online trojan scan
also, what programs have you tried to delete the file in?
what about nero
I'll try but Im tellin ya, I doubt it... this is messed right up, it has made me unable to even open the shared folder, which Im quite fond of the 10GB of stuff in there
do it in safe mode, it wont be accessin ya drive then if thats the issue and nothing should be accessin the file either. seriously dodgy file, norton better than mcafee.
All right thank you, I got rid of it, I think you were right, I got rid of it in safe mode. All is good, I believe now. I've never even heard of this happening... Im not sure if it really matters what virus software, none of them are effective on the ones that count, like total sys destruction style viruses. my other comp I have has norton... Now... Its so buggy that it cant be started... but you may be right... Ill get a copy on Norton for this comp... I appreciate the help
no worries :D
this happened to me with age of empires file! when ever i just like clicked on it not even opening it just clicked and my whole computer crash it was horrrible