Please help me remove a rogue file

**Chewie** · 08-15-2006, 01:55 PM

Originally Posted by limesqueezer

Yes im saying that, listen carefully. Every trojan is a file name used by sytem, thats the basic of trojan. Trojan replaces the original or changed it.

What?
Not every trojan replaces system files or uses the same filename in a different folder. In fact, they rarely do.

**Virtualbody1234** · 08-15-2006, 02:15 PM

Also the fact that a file is difficult to delete doesn't make it a trojan.

**limesqueezer** · 08-15-2006, 02:29 PM

I had this problem and this file is hidden and also it is in any thumbs folder and folders can be deleted.

**Chewie** · 08-15-2006, 02:37 PM

Could you explain that please?

If a file is being used (or has been used and not 'let go' properly by the process using it) then Windows will not allow you to delete it, its parent folder or any other parental folders in the tree in which it resides.

thumbs.db is a Windows file. It's a cache of image thumbnails in the folder in which it resides. It isn't executable but referenced by Explorer when rendering the folder contents as thumbnail images.

Personally I think they're a waste of space; I turn their generation off and delete all instances on my systems.

**limesqueezer** · 08-15-2006, 02:55 PM

I didn't say it isn't a windows file, just normal thumbs.db file doesn't cause any problems. If u can't remove a file than it is used by something and that can only mean that the computer is infected.

**Barbarossa** · 08-15-2006, 03:08 PM

Originally Posted by limesqueezer

I didn't say it isn't a windows file, just normal thumbs.db file doesn't cause any problems. If u can't remove a file than it is used by something and that can only mean that the computer is infected.

Wrong again.

It could just be in use by another process

**limesqueezer** · 08-15-2006, 03:21 PM

Can u stop with this smartassing, really ? Everybody knows what thumbs.db is, if u just found out on net about thumbs.db u don't know anything.
I had this problem and my computer crashed when i opened a folder and thumbs.db was infected. Emty folders don't crash and btw thumbs.db can't be used on a clean disk, cause it stops working when the thumbs are created.
Now tell me more....im all ears noobs
Im done with this thread.

**Virtualbody1234** · 08-15-2006, 03:40 PM

Originally Posted by limesqueezer

I didn't say it isn't a windows file, just normal thumbs.db file doesn't cause any problems. If u can't remove a file than it is used by something and that can only mean that the computer is infected.

Again I say...

Originally Posted by Virtualbody1234

... the fact that a file is difficult to delete doesn't make it a trojan.