deleting files

From: Scott Shipley (scotts@mhaonline.org)
Date: 05/31/02


From: "Scott Shipley" <scotts@mhaonline.org>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 06:49:51 -0700


If the drive that has these file are on isn't NTFS, then
try booting to a floppy and use DOS to delete them. If it
is NTFS, try using the recovery console in Win2K to delete
these files.

I'm not sure if this will work or not, but it was just a
thought.
>-----Original Message-----
>I had a query regarding a particular problem we are
>facing.One of website on the shared web server was
>exploited via Anonymous ftp. There were sub folders
>created within the sites directory into which files were
>uploaded. After detecting the exploit we have stopped the
>ftp service on that site.The problem now is that the
files
>uploaded into those new folders created are big in size
>(In GB ). So we need to delete this files as they are
>occupying space on the server. We have manually tried
>deleting the files but it shows a sharing violation,
files
>in use.Also we have tried deleting the files after
>stopping the Websites. But even this has not helped.The
>server is a Win2K machine with IIS 5 as the webserver.
> Any suggestion on this would be welcome.
>.
>



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