Re: Virus??

From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 10/30/03


Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:04:57 -0500

Tay:

The directory C:\9af6a526c3d6daa05eba9a is a remnant of upgrading the OS Service Pack and
you SHOULD be able to delete the directory. The directory should not be protected and
really should also be empty -- unless the upgrade of the OS Service Pack was not
successful.

Dave

"Tay" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:056b01c39e65$da712700$a101280a@phx.gbl...
| My computer has not been working for a while. It's
| getting worse, it locks up every couple seconds, and then
| you have to wait before you can do anything. I've been
| thinking it has to be a virus for a long time, but norton
| and the free virus scan from this site cant find it. so I
| was cleaning up my files today, and I noticed a weird one
| C:\9af6a526c3d6daa05eba9a it has three sub folders all of
| which are protected, they are common, sp1, and sp2. I'm
| not sure that's what's causing the problem, or if
| deleting it will fix anything, but how can you delete a
| protected folder?



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