SCR file

[Steve Hayes]

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?

 

[Graham Mayor]

SCR files *may* be an indication of a Trojan activity -
http://filext.com/file-extension/SCR

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[Steve Hayes]

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.

 

[macropod]

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.

 

[Terry Farrell]

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.

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Why don't you talk to the student and ask him about this file?

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"