Deleting Files
From: mikel pirie (mikel.pirie@nospam.Valen.ca)
Date: 05/31/02
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From: "mikel pirie" <mikel.pirie@nospam.Valen.ca> Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 13:53:03 -0700
hi Navin,
my client experienced a similar issue - their exch 5.5
server became a temporary ftp location for a group of
warez kiddies, and a complete substructure of sub
directories was created to support this, with a variety of
special characters. all server win2k and all drives ntfs.
when they called me in my first priority was reclaiming
space - their users could not perform email operations
because the disk was completely full. first I re-took
ownership of the complete structure - this did not work on
all the folders and objects but for most. then I re-
permissioned myself as having full control - again this
did not work completely but enough so that I could reclaim
space.
because of some of the special characters in the
directories I could not even get to the files in the
directories in some case.
after deleting what i could through file explorer and also
the command prompt (renaming directories to navigate to
them). I could not get any further with native tools short
of backing up & reformatting, i found some useful delete
utilities on the net that helped - one great one is an old
DOS favorite - XTree Gold or rather a clone of it. There
is a shareware version of a good clone at
http://go.to/filextreme .
after all this, i managed to delete 100% files, reclaimed
all space and still have 4 directories of about 50 that i
cannot get rid of.
hth
Mike
mikel.pirie@nospam.valen.ca
>-----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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