Strange Folder

[Willis]

anthony baldwin wrote:
> Willis wrote:
>   
>> An untitled Folder icon has appeared on my desk top and I cannot move it 
>> to the trash.  I got an IM from some unknown person about earning 
>> hundreds of dollars and when I closed the message the icon was there.  
>> Can I trash or remove it, please.
>>
>>   
>>     
> Did you highlight it, rt-click and select delete?
> or just try to move it to trash?
>
>
> I would open a terminal and
> sudo cd /home/"yourusername"/Desktop
> and then
> sudo rm "whatever the name of this file is"
>
> without quotation marks, of course, and
> substituting the relevant information where I've placed quotes.
> What IM program were you using?
> Nobody should be able to sent you any file unless you accept the
> transfer.
>
> /tony
>
>   
Thank-you, that found it and it is gone.  I was using pidgin.