Why would 16 bit support files keep being deleted?

ilkhan

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XP Pro, SP2 computer.

My dad likes to play his texas hold'um game (he's basically computer illiterate though). However fairly often the computer will delete his c:\windows\system32\autoexec.nt file. And the game spits an error message at him and wont let him play.

I restored the file before I left for school during x-mas break, and again (through him) today (twice).

What could be causing the file to keep dissapearing?
side note: Just installed AVG7.x today, and the unistaller for the old version was the first reason we had to restore the file (it would spit an error). Then between 1:00 and 9:30 is was deleted again.
 
Set the file read only:
attrib +r file, and whatever is deleting it will fail. Spyware/Adware detection software maybe, I've seen it delete that file.
 
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