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09-24-2003, 10:14 AM
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Good morning folks..My good friend has XP, and Nortons tells him that he has a file---jqpm.exe C:\windows quarentined ,but cannot repair it..Could someone explain what this file is or does?TIA...Garyd
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09-24-2003, 10:18 AM
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My PC doesn't seem to have that file and google turned up nothing.
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09-24-2003, 10:30 AM
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Thank you James for the response,the thing is he was checking his E-Mail yesterday and he thinks he may have incured a virus or some kind of worm,When he clicks an Icon on the desktop to open a program ie.his e-mail ,nortons etc.he gets a window that say that file cannot be found...TIA GaryD..
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09-24-2003, 10:37 AM
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I have XP home with all updates and this file is not here either.
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09-24-2003, 10:49 AM
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He just did a file search and it came up with (jqpm.exe-315d33bf.pf C:\windows\prefetch) 11kb pf file...TIA..GaryD..
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09-24-2003, 10:53 AM
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The prefetch directory contains a list of files that are frequently accessed by windows to speed up loading (kinda like a Cache except for executables and libraries etc). Try to rename the file to a weird filename and move it out into another directory. Then do a scan of that file.
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09-24-2003, 11:32 AM
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Statica---I went to windows found the prefetch file renamed it and moved it to my docs and tryed to scan with nortons AV and nothing happened....
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09-24-2003, 11:34 AM
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By the way this all happening on a Dell inspiron lap top if that makes a diff...
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