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I wanted something a little more automatic than having to manually clean the index.dat virus. Since the index.dat is a hidden system file and it can't be edited w/o changing the attributes every time (you can remove -h and -s attributes manually but the next time you log on they are reapplied) I wrote a simple batch file and put it in the folder where index.dat is located, and put a shortcut to it in my profile startup folder:
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attrib -h -s index.dat
date /t > index.dat
time /t >> index.dat
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Then I put a shortcut to index.dat on my desktop. When I open it, I can verify that the only thing in the file is the date and time when I last logged on.
The only problem with this is when the batch file tries to run at logon, I get a security warning dialog each and every time that I have to OK before it will run. Surely there is a way to make windows recognize this as a safe file to run ?