>Hi Bruce,
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>After the Life Stages mess, some of these ideas kicked around.
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>You can force windows to show the .SHS extension by deleting the registry setting: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ShellScrap\NeverShowExt and HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\DocShortcut to make .SHS and .SHB extensions visible.
>
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>You can also delete "ShScrap.DLL" from the Windows system folder to disable scrap files entirely.

Like the WSH deletion, these are only remedial steps, though, and may interfere with something important or not help sufficiently. I think larger answers are needed to address the virus problem...