Re: need help deleting strange files!!!

From: ME (junkk@attbi.com.removethis)
Date: 01/10/02 

From: "ME" <junkk@attbi.com.removethis>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 02:07:52 GMT

Thank you that worked like a charm!

Matt

"Henry the 8th" <henry@here.tld> wrote in message
news:pjo_7.1628$IB5.317773@news-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
> I have had a similar issue on NT4 and using
> the dir /x command gave me the short 8-character name for each file and
> directory. Then I did rmdir with that specific name. It worked for me
>
>
> "Matt Edwards" <junkkk@attbi.com> wrote in message
> news:Djk_7.22$uj6.42832@news.uswest.net...
> > The directory name is most likely " "
> >
> >
> > This same thing has also happened tu me. As of yet I can't figure out
how
> > to delete them either. I know it is only one directory name, but under
> this
> > directory is where the "punks" have stored their 1.5Gb of trash. If it
> can
> > be made there is a way to delete it. I have just can't seem to find the
> > answer ANYWHERE on the net. Is this a new exploit? Or one so old no
body
> > talks about it anymore? I suspect they are using some ascii character
> that
> > is non displayable and non typeable, chr(0) maybe (in wich case I will
> most
> > likely need a small utility to delete it.), but I am not sure.
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > "Doggy" <doggy@one.ekof.bg.ac.yu> wrote in message
> > news:9v8ac3$g42$1@news.etf.bg.ac.yu...
> > > Can you specify some of the names of those files?
> > > Maybe they have some characters that windows can't recognize.
> > >
> > > Doggy
> > >
> > > "peth" <petherington@f2s.com> wrote in message
> > > news:mPJR7.75095$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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