To all who are watching this thread:
Just thought I'd help you all out. I also downloaded this file by
mistake, and from my limited experience, my best guess is that this is
some backdoor trojan created by a hacker who would one day like to use
your computer in some sort of DoS attack. However, you can easily
thwart him or her:
This file cannot be deleted because it is running in the background as
a process. You can either boot into DOS to delete it, or stop it from
running when Windows starts (thereby allowing you to delete it on
reboot) in this manner:
Under the start menu, click "Run"
type "regedit"
open "hkey_local_machine"
open "software"
open "microsoft"
open "windows"
open "current version"
click "run"
delete the key that has the file name in the "data" area
reboot
delete the file
I don't think that this file does any permenant damage, but it would
probably be a good idea to get rid of it quickly. Please let me know
if you have any other Q's. If I do find that more repair needs to be
done to my system, I'll let you all know. Have a good day!
Sincerely,
Glen Friedman
Shep© <> wrote in message news:<>. ..
> On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 21:46:41 GMT, In this world we created "Alison
> Jones" <> wrote :
>
> >Hi. Can anyone help? Got Win98 and downloaded file from kazaa lite. Don't
> >want or need this file now, but i can't seem to delete it!!! Message appears
> >: "cannot delete setup launcher. Access is denied. Make sure disk is not
> >full or write protected and that the file is not currently in use."
> >Firstly...how do i find out if it is full or write protected? And
> >secondly.....how can i delete it??? Please help.............Ali x
>
> F8 bootup/Safemode and try from there.
> If not then you will need to know the dos name of the file and restart
> in msdos and navigate to the folder it's in and type
> deltree <filename> and press enter.
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