Really weird thing happened on my win 7 box

[Monster]

TheTominator wrote:
[quote=olnacl]
I just finished nuking and paving an old Dell 2400 that had the virus removal virus on it. I pulled the HDD and connected it to my Win 7 machine, ran Security Essentials and cleared the virus.

I don't follow you here.

"I just finished nuking and paving" = You reformatted the hard drive to completely erase everything and reinstalled the operating system and user's files carefully to avoid reintroducing a virus.

Then you "ran Security Essentials and cleared the virus". How was it that a virus survived the nuking and paving procedure?
I was wondering the same thing.

and would also like to add that you can't trust Security Essentials, and if you only rely on that, then you will, without a doubt, get infected sooner or later.

Wordpad should be in the Accessories folder,
Start>All Programs>Accessories>Wordpad

don't know why it may not be there, but as an alternative to Wordpad try using Jarte, http://www.jarte.com/