Could this be a virus?!?!?!?!

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I got an email from someone I thought I knew and right when i clicked on it in MS Outlook (not express) it said something about an attachment (no paperclip sign either, which was weird). I saved it to the desktop and scanned it with Panda Antivirus Titanium (I'm using XP). It said there was nothing wrong with it. The filename was README.MP3.SCR. I tried opening it and it disappeared. $#!+, I thought. I cut off the .SCR part and tried to open it in Winamp. Froze Winamp. $#!+, $#!+, $#!+. I downloaded and installed the new McAfee VirusScan and after I restarted, I tried to open Outlook and it won't work. Whenever I try and open Outlook now I get an error and it closes out before I can even get into it. Was it a virus? Has anyone heard of a virus with this filename? I tried replying to the person who sent it and I got an email back that said it was the wrong address. Am I screwed? Should I just say f*** it and reformat? I really don't want to do that because I have finals coming up and stuff and I don't want to deal with it. Thanks for the help everyone and I hope I can fix my computer!

--Ryan

Here's what I have:
Win XP
Outlook 2000
AMD Tbird 1.33
512 MB Crucial DDR
Epox 8k7a
Geforce 2 pro
 
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AnthraX101

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Sounds like it could be a nasty virus. One thing many people don't know is that the .SCR extention, while usualy being a screensaver, could be an exe. If you rename an EXE to SCR, it will work just as well.

Sorry :(

Armani
 
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haut

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Whats the best way to deal with it? I did a complete hard drive scan and found nothing infected. I really don't want to reformat and stuff. I even scanned the attachment (well I thought I did) and it said no virus. Thanks for the info on the screensaver files.
--Ryan
 
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