Re: need help deleting strange files!!!

From: Doggy (doggy@one.ekof.bg.ac.yu)
Date: 12/12/01 

From: "Doggy" <doggy@one.ekof.bg.ac.yu>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 20:14:13 +0100

Can you specify some of the names of those files?
Maybe they have some characters that windows can't recognize.

Doggy

"peth" <petherington@f2s.com> wrote in message
news:mPJR7.75095$Z2.1080460@nnrp1.uunet.ca...
> We have an NT 4.0 (SP post-6a) box running IIS 3 and MS Proxy 2.0.
>
> Somehow, some punks got into our ftp site and placed a whole crap load of
> files in there.
>
> The first problem is that we can't delete them.
> When you attempt to delete a file or folder through windows explorer, an
> error message appears reading:
>
> "Error deleting file or folder
> Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk"
>
> When Properties is chosen from the right-click menu, the file appears to
> have no size, name or any other attributes.
>
> I'm sure this is a standard issue within the hacker world. But I've never
> seen it before.
> How do I delete these files???
>
> Thank you!
> Paul
>
>

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