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SCR file
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? -- 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 uk |
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SCR files *may* be an indication of a Trojan activity -
http://filext.com/file-extension/SCR -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Steve Hayes wrote: 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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On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 08:08:54 +0300, "Graham Mayor"
wrote: SCR files *may* be an indication of a Trojan activity - http://filext.com/file-extension/SCR That's why I didn't want to open it. But I do need to be able to read my student's thesis. -- 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 uk |
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Hi Steve,
If you change the file extension to txt (eg Thesis.txt), you can safely open it with Notepad. If there's a Word document containing the thesis in there, you should soon be able to find the text content by scrolling through the file. Useful for confirmation, perhaps, but not much else if there's lots of formatting & graphics. -- Cheers macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] "Steve Hayes" wrote in message ... On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 08:08:54 +0300, "Graham Mayor" wrote: SCR files *may* be an indication of a Trojan activity - http://filext.com/file-extension/SCR That's why I didn't want to open it. But I do need to be able to read my student's thesis. -- 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 uk |
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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 news 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? -- 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 uk |
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Why don't you talk to the student and ask him about this file?
-- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Steve Hayes" wrote in message ... On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 08:08:54 +0300, "Graham Mayor" wrote: SCR files *may* be an indication of a Trojan activity - http://filext.com/file-extension/SCR That's why I didn't want to open it. But I do need to be able to read my student's thesis. -- 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 uk |
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