Is there such a thing as a clone Notepad application, an unknown application which sneaks into the start menu.
I might be paranoid but last week the notepad icon didn't look right and after getting rid of it some txt files created in it will not open in... well Notepad. I can copy, view and then save them but when re opening them I get an error... Program Not Found/ Windows can not find NOTEPAD.EXE.

Other txt files created ages ago open as norm in the Notepad running now.
Is it time to bring in the people with white coats yet?

G'day

No need to bring them in we already here! Jk,
By what you've just told me I can say with confidence you have a virus. Congratulations! No really, you do. You've got a virus which deletes your notepad files then puts itself in as the files it deleted. So you look in the folder where notepad is and everythink looks the same rite? Well its not unfortunately, you'll have to if you don't already get a virus scanner, I recommend going to www.trendmicro.com and running there free virus scanner.

If you need help on removing the virus, just giz us a hoy captain;) ;D

Regards~

I am virus free apparently. The only one that got in was one called bloodhound exploit 6. I take it with my updates this was delt with. I will check out trendmirco, thanks again.

yea mate where it say the virus is located? And has it been quarentined? Il do sum digging around n see what I can find about bloodhound mate. Could be a variant of sum sort...

regards~

8/06/2004 11:00:46"Source: C:\Documents and Settings\XXXX\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\BP0XK0W8\index[1].html,Description: The compressed file index[1].html within C:\Documents and Settings\XXXX\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\BP0XK0W8\index[1].html is infected with the Bloodhound.Exploit.6 virus."

Quarentined

Ok mate, try deleting the temp folder the files in. Otherwise if nuffin seems to be working, how DOS litrate are you? Its easy to delete most virus's in DOS because there's no virus that I'm aware of that can servive in DOS. If you need sum tips just buzz.

Regards~