"W Barham" <wbarham@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:1gl2o2tou88mol284rbub4qqstp9m8245f@4ax.com...
>I have a file XXXXXX.exe that is located on two hard drives. It has
> been identified by BitDefender as:
>
> "looks like a trojan".
>
> When I use Windows Explorer to delete this file then I get the
> message:
>
> "Cannot delete.
> Cannot read from the source file or disk"
>
> Any tips on how I might delete these two files? I've had this problem
> in the past but after a reboot then I was able to delete other files.
>
> Thanks for any help in advance.

"Cannot read from the source file or disk" usually means the file
is on a bad spot on the hard drive. Run scandisk or chkdsk and
see if that fixes it.