Wanna try to be techie stumped?

[Shanteli]

Yeah so I dug up this old PCMCIA 10BaseT NIC card and wanted to find drivers for it. I went to the manuf. site and grabbed it. But then the odd thing is that after I DLed the file to my desktop, the file just would not delete. I copied it to my MUVO and it would not delete there either. After multiple restarts and booting in safe mode etc. It still would not be deleted. I finally had to create a batch file to run on startup to kill it but I still have no idea what process or sercive was making the file run...especially since I never actually executed it. I scanned it for a virus and still nothing.

If you would like to experiment Here is the link.

I dunno I was pretty baffled and I have seen a lot in all my years of computing.

 

[SherEPunjab]

Originally posted by: Shanteli
Yeah so I dug up this old PCMCIA 10BaseT NIC card and wanted to find drivers for it. I went to the manuf. site and grabbed it. But then the odd thing is that after I DLed the file to my desktop, the file just would not delete. I copied it to my MUVO and it would not delete there either. After multiple restarts and booting in safe mode etc. It still would not be deleted. I finally had to create a batch file to run on startup to kill it but I still have no idea what process or sercive was making the file run...especially since I never actually executed it. I scanned it for a virus and still nothing.

If you would like to experiment Here is the link.

I dunno I was pretty baffled and I have seen a lot in all my years of computing.

Sounds like ex-Microsoft employees wrote the driver code.

 

[Shanteli]

Yeah but that is part of the interesting thing...I didn't even unzip or run the executable. The second the whole file was coped to my computer it would not be deleted

 

[iwearnosox]

Pebcak issue.

 

[Shanteli]

Pebcak? What is that short for?

 

[Xionide]

I had no such problem deleting it

 

[cricky]

Right click - Delete - Empty Trash - Gone...

--Chris

 

[TwiceOver]

No problem deleting it here either...

 

[Shanteli]

Really? Holy sh*t....well I guess it is just my computer for some reason....gosh...oh well...sorry for wasting you guyz' time.

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: TwiceOver
No problem deleting it here either...

 

[cessna152]

Pebcak

Problem exists between chair and keyboard

Kinda mean thing to say

 

[KingNothing]

Originally posted by: cessna152
Pebcak

Problem exists between chair and keyboard

Kinda mean thing to say

Googlefight backs me up when I say it's PEBKAC, problem exists between keyboard and chair.

 

[Harvey]

For safety, I d/l'd it to a floppy. Using Win98 SE so I dropped to the DOS prompt and checked the attributes. Not Read Only, Hidden, Sys, or anything else. DEL A:*.* worked.