Another rogue file

[Peter Sharpe]

I have just cleared over 200mb of junk from a friend's Temporary Internet Files folder, mainly as a result of his children's activities on gaming forums. In the C:WindowsTemp folder there is a file called sczetejv.exe, which I feel sure should not be there. I can't delete it as the message appears saying it is in use by Windows. I can't even delete it in DOS as it says access denied. Does anybody know what this is? I can't find any reference to it on Google.

[Newt]

A baddie with that name and that behavior but no way to tell what piece of crapware dropped it on them since lots of the spyware/malware apps use random file names.

 

Solution I'd use is to download and install MoveOnBoot. It will add a new right-click menu option called "Delete File(s) on next reboot" and it works great. Locate the file, right-click on it, select that option, and reboot. It will get rid of the file before enough of the OS loads for anything to grab the file and flag it as in use.

 

Anyone who uses lots of gaming forums (or who has children using the PC) really should be using

- spywareblaster (passive and full time protection)

- IESpyads if they run IE (passive and full time protection)

- Spybot (both passive immunization and on-demand scanning and crapware removal)

- Ad-aware SE (scan and remove junk that the others missed)

 

After getting and using all the above, if there are still any problems then post back but those will take care of about 99%+ of the junk before it gets a chance to do anything.

 

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[ 14. December 2004, 11:29 PM: Message edited by: Newt ]

[Peter Sharpe]

Thanks Newt. They also had absolutely hundreds of long file names in capital letters in about thirty temporary internet file folders as well. There were so many that I had to keep stopping to empty the recycle bin. I think I saw some references to MSN Messenger among them.

That Moveonboot looks to be a useful program.

 

[ 14. December 2004, 11:58 PM: Message edited by: Peter Sharpe ]

[Tog]

If you ever want to delete a file that is too big for the recycle bin or you know you NEVER want it again, press the left shift key as you press delete and it will ERASE the file.

If not all you do is put the junk in the recycle bin which a lot of viri can get themselves out of.

 

NB this means the file is nearly impossible to restore! so make sure you want it gone before you do it!! (it can be recovered by specialist software but only as long as nothing else overwrites it first).

 

[ 15. December 2004, 09:40 PM: Message edited by: Tog ]