Safari download wont..

My dads gf used my computer and I had safari up and she downloaded an item from her email thats titled: FW-Why you never question a drunk...
Now I cannot get it off my desktop because it says..
Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk.
does anybody know how I can get rid of it?

Your's helped the most.
I'll show you what the guy wrote that I did and worked:
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Originally Posted by soulm4t3
Thanks for the help, but still can't delete it. I can't rename it, or even do anything to it. Can't even overwrite it with another file. This is the properties of the file.
Do not know if this information is going to be of any use to you (but may be, that is why I have posted it...!!).
I recently had a similar problem with an .NFO file on my Desktop which I could do absolutely nothing with (or so I thought.......). Kept reporting back "Cannot read from the source file or disk" on tying to delete, rename, move and open. Quite a bit concerned about doing a complete reinstallation of OS considering had done one only a week ago after an unrelated issue. Then thought I would try something........
I Right-Clicked on the file icon and in menu selected "Open with....". Selected Notepad as program to use (.NFO is a system Info text file). The PC returned the following error......."This file does not exist......would you like to create a new one?". Clicked on "Yes" and was given a blank Notepad screen, where I scribbled some text and then tried to save the data......which it did! I now had a working file with data in it which I could, and did, delete.
So, suggestion...........
Try to find a program (if you do not already have one) that will run the extension type of the file trying to be deleted and install on your PC. Go through the method I used for my .NFO file (i.e. Right-click -> "Open With...." -> chooose your program for the file extension etc.) and see if this method works for you.
Hope this helps in some way or another..............

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