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Help please, I got this file which won't disappear!

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axemanxt40

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Ok earlier in May I posted on the general hardware forum about how to eradicate everything on my drive.

The thread is here so take a look it has all the background information you might need to get a handle on this situation.

Ok basically I ended up taking Acronis Diskcleaner, and wiping my hard drive with the DoD method. I reinstalled everything...a few days later the file shows up on the desktop again. So I was like ok maybe because I didn't delete the partition table it something survived.

So I deleted my main partition, rebooted my machine, created a new one, rebooted my machine, wiped the disk with Acronis Diskcleaner, rebooted, formatted the HD, installed windows ME, rebooted, did a clean install to windows xp with a file system conversion to NTFS...and here I am now with the same file back on my PC.

I've scanned it with Norton, no virus, I've submitted it to SARC no malicious code found. I open the file with notepad again...its mostly gibberish with a few numbers...and the words "Main Identity's Contacts" in plain english.

Now for a file that not related to a virus this is some really messed up behavior! None of this happened until I made the stupid error of opening this program from a paypal email scam. I know its not a normal side process of my PC because it didn't do this until I made that stupid mistake. I am very lost and don't know what to do...if anyone could point me in the right direction I would be very grateful!
 
Is the e-mail still present in your inbox? Or is there anything that you backed up and have restored since the reformats?

Or was the file simply there again directly after the reformat/reinstall?
 
I have an AOL email account, so 1 the previewing doesn't work like MS outlook, 2 I deleted it after I opened it like an idiot and downloaded the attachment, 3 there is nothing from the system before the reformat that I restored.

Its just the wiped, fdisked, reformating, reinstalled version of windows with fresh install of norton antivirus, MS office, AOL, etc. with no restored backups of anything. I didn't even make backups 😕:disgust:
 
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