spider application in C:Windows\ServicePackFiles\i386

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I have put a short cut to wordpad in my task bar and on my desk top so I
could easily paste to it after clicking on print screen. This morning when I
tried that I got a game called "spider." In searching for files and folders
with spider, I get 9, 3 are at C:\i386, and 3 are at C:\WINDOWS\i386, then
there are one each at C:\WINDOWS\Help, C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch and
C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386. What is this? How do I get rid of it? Can I
just delete these files? Is there anything else I should do? Thanks.
 
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I have put a short cut to wordpad in my task bar and on my desk top so
I
could easily paste to it after clicking on print screen. This morning
when I
tried that I got a game called "spider." In searching for files and
folders
with spider, I get 9, 3 are at C:\i386, and 3 are at C:\WINDOWS\i386,
then
there are one each at C:\WINDOWS\Help, C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch and
C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386. What is this? How do I get rid of
it? Can I
just delete these files? Is there anything else I should do? Thanks.
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Look in the Games folder in the Start menu. Look at the properties of
Spider Solitaire. See the name of the file for that program?
 
Vanguard said:
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Look in the Games folder in the Start menu. Look at the properties of
Spider Solitaire. See the name of the file for that program?


I just went to the 9 folders that spider appeared in and deleted them, deleted my shortcuts to wordpad on the desktop and taskbar and all seems to be working OK. The indications are that it was downloaded with a service pack update from Microsoft, but don't know how it took over my wordpad shortcut. Anyway, so far nothing bad has come up from it, so hopefully all is well with what I did. Thanks.
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