Don't worry, it's not a virus. You can't have embed a virus into most media files (except maybe wmv videos). This is a common problem with avi files that are encoded poorly. Windows (specifically WinXP) tries getting the file information which is stored at the end of the file, but if the file is corrupted, it has to read the whole file before it gets to the info it wants.
Here are two easy things to try to delete it:
First easy way: Click on the file to select it. Don't double click it to open it. Let it sit there for a little bit. It shouldn't take more than a minute. Try deleting it every once in a while.
Second easy way: Right click on the file and select "Properties". It will pop up a box with some info about the file. Click "Cancel" then you should be able to delete the file.
The SURE way to delete it involves editing your registry. Quite frankly this is simple, BUT if you erase the wrong things your computer is going to be majorly messed up. So try it at your own risk.
Click "Start", go to "Run...", type "regedit", then click ok. Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{87D62D9 4-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}\ and erase the "InProcServer32" key. Reboot, then you can delete it.
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