Re: The Recycler Folder

From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 11/29/03 

Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 20:24:39 -0500

Just to be sure....

Go to Trend and/or McAfee and perform and online scan of your platform and report back your
results.

Dave

"Jorge Alexandres" <Rock2000@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:049601c3b616$e0b1cbb0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
| Hi Mike;
|
| Thank you for your reply, so this confirms my thinking the
| Recycler folder is created by the OS.
|
| I think we should tell Symantec about this information,
| because they are sure is a virus.
|
| Regards.
|
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >Jorge,
| >[The Recycler folder is used only on NTFS partitions.]
| >Differences Between the Recycle Bin and the Recycler
| Folder
| >http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=171694
| >
| >Files Are Not Deleted From Recycler Folder
| >http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=229041
| >__________________________________________________________
| __
| >Mike Burgess [MVP Windows Shell\User]
| http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/
| >Blocking Spyware, Adware, Parasites, Hijackers, Trojans,
| with a HOSTS file
| >http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm [updated 11-26-
| 03]
| >Please post replies to this Newsgroup, email address is
| invalid
| >--
| >
| >"Jorge Alexandres" <Rock2000@hotmail.com> wrote in message
| >news:02af01c3b5ed$9c627280$a101280a@phx.gbl...
| >> I am aware of a folder named Recycler, hiden and
| >> discovered in Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000,
| and
| >> Windows NT 4.0, servers and workstations.
| >>
| >> Symantec report to be a virus, but in my research it
| makes
| >> me thing is a folder created by the operating system and
| >> for remote services when enebled in the machine.
| >>
| >> Does anybody have any input about this folder? So far I
| >> been deleting the folder from a DOS window, recreating
| it
| >> and making a recycler.rar file of it, then deleting the
| >> folder again, renaming recycler.rar to only recycler,
| and
| >> giving the file +r +h +s attributes. This is the only
| way
| >> yo avoid the Recycler folder re-creating.
| >>
| >> I will appreciate any input about this issue.
| >>
| >> Thank you!
| >
| >
| >.
| >

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