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Old May 22nd, 2004, 09:25 PM
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Default Re: OT: Anyone heard of this file?

Even if my knowledge of informatics is about nill, I read something along the lines of what BBgemott mentioned as well. The fact that Google finds nothing is very unusual, so I would believe it is a name that has been generated at random.

Likewise, it might be that this exe has cousins on your computer, to avoid being suppressed too easily. Once I had a somewhat similar virus, which was present in several exes and used a few different names (it didn't generate names as far as I know though). How to get rid of it without invoking the Format spell is another matter obviously, but I would expect the Usenet to have better answers available. (My understanding of it is that it is basically a *lot* of newsGroups and includes other discussions, news and so on)
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