Most AV utilities should let you scan it for a virus/trojan. Plug in the
flash drive, open Windows Explorer and right-click on the file: is there an
option to SCAN? If not, you may be able to launch you AV utility and make it
SCAN the flash drive.
But as Macropod indicates, if you open it in Notepad, the virus/trojan won't
be able to work because Notepad is text only. If it is his/her thesis,
amongst all the jumble of Word's formatting, you should still see chunks of
the text.
--
Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP
"Steve Hayes" wrote in message
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A student gave me his flash drive, which had his thesis on it.
The problem was that the latest version of his thesis was an SCR file, and
the
previous DOC file version was dated two weeks earlier.
What would cause his work to be saved as an SCR file, and how can it be
read?
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Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm
Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop
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