Hi, I don't know if I am in the right section, please feel free to move if wrong. I am in need of a help, I have an complete folder that is sitting on my desktop that I cannot budge, I have tried using the unlocker assistant and it managed to remove it until re-booting and there it was again.
Alvin.And.The.Chipmunks[2007]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo this is the folder in question, its driving me nutty cause I just cant seem to get rid of it,
any help would me much appreciated,

Thanks

Mrs Spiv

This is an illegaly downloaded file and probably contains a virus which is maybe why you are having problems with it.

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ok, thanks for that, am I able to check to see if I have a virus in my computer, I have run avg that didn't pick any thing up,

Its likely that if you do have a virus or trojan that AVG May have missed this. Try running Avast Home Free. You can get it HERE. Avast is known for finding Virus and Trojan that AVG Misses. If you are still having trouble after trying this then come back to us.

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Well firstly, I'd do what Mr. Pickles said.
Its always risky downloading form torrent sites.

If you still cannot delete your folder, then try this way:

Start -> Run -> Then type in: cmd

navigate to your desktop using: cd C:/xxxx (can't remembe rhow to get to it now )
then:
will list all your files and folders on your desktop.
just replace the XXX with your folder name.

That should delete your folder for you.

Hopefully thats clear enough for you :S

Jam

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thanks, I tried running avast, it did find and get rid of some malware but don't think it sorted out the folder, I shall try manually deleting but not sure I totally got what was said. May I just say thanks for the help so far,
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I didnt understand this at all, sorry, I must be being a bit thick today

Press the windows key and the R key at the same time. Then type in CMD to open the command prompt. Then navigate to your Desktop using the command line. Then type in rmdir x (x being the name of the folder)

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I had a file on my computer at work that did the same thing. Yes it was a virus. Luckily I was using McAfee and it deleted it on it's own after Mcafee updated on April Fool's Day of all days in '06. I could delete this file and watch it reappear before my eyes.

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AVG is very good at missing files. I assume you have the free edition, and that is fairly low powered. You would probably get a much slower computer, better database and better support with something like McAfee or Norton.

BTW, don't download torrents. 90% of the time, illegal torrent downloads have viruses or malware. Just buy the software/movie.. It will save you a lot of time, and effort. Plus, it will make the makers of the software/movie much happier.

yeah thanks for that, I realised that now. I did have norton on my computer once, but that was just to damn good and stopping everything lol, i dont normally use avg but was told it was good so tried it out (yeah the free edition) but it hasn't worked. I will keep trying but thanks for all the help so far, if anybody else has any ideas feel free to le me know.

I never had a problem whilst using AVG. But everyone that I know that has used it has caught a virus form it!

Just thinking, have you tried boting up in safe mode and removing the folder?
Im not sure if that would work or not, just an idea

Jam

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Wow wow wow, Stay away from Norton, its bloated and not much good either. Try Avast its free and very good at what it does.

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Alvin.And.The.Chipmunks[2007]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo
trojan.remover.EXE

ok these are 2 folders in questions that are driving me round the bend, it don't seem to matter what I do they just won't delete, tried, avg, avast, spybot search & destroy, lavasoft adaware, running out of options now. Have tried deleteing in safe mode but they just keep coming back, Can anyone tell me what to do now, and if they are acutally going to cause me any harm by not being able to delete them
THANKS

You might want to look into booting from a Linux Live CD and deleting them in there.

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Ok I am a totally novice to this, what an earth is a linux live cd, how do I go about getting one and then what do I do with it from there, talk about being a girl that don't know a great deal about computers lol!!!!!!!