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re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk
Friday, February 1, 2002 at 11:34 pm
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Posted by Karl Fife (1 messages posted)


Indeed I was hacked too. This thread gave me only HALF of the solution.  The OTHER 
HALF goes like this:

Levels upon levels of undeleteable garbage directories

c:\inetpub\ftproot\[noname]\fbjc;;;;\fbjx;;;;\... 

First I issued a  del *.* /f /s/q as suggested by someone on this thread.  This command 
cascaded through the directories and deleted the files without prompting. 

BUT
The empty directories were still there and they could not be deleted/renamed/copied/moved 
using windows explorer.  Furthermore, the directory did not have a name in dos, so 
I could not even remove (rd) or change (cd) to the folder because I couldn't name 
it!  Hundreds of levels and hundreds of items on each level. 

The solution was to issue a rd /s command from the parent directory.  

In my example:
c:\inetpub\ftproot\[noname]\fbjc;;;;\fbjx;;;;\... and so on 

from the c:\inetpub\ directory I issued the command rd ftproot /s.
Presto!

If only I could issue a RH /P /AK command
(remove hacker /permanent /with ass kicking)





On Thursday, December 27, 2001 at 8:40 am, Alex wrote:
>Hello,
>This message was posted a few weeks ago.
>(A hacker put files on my ftproot folder and I am not able to delete those files. 
>Rights are okay)
>I does NOT work for me.
>Here is the FTP log file.
>USER anonymous 331
>PASS guest@ 230
>MKD temporary 257
>created eveCD2.r00 226
>RNFR eveCD2.r00+./+/ 550
>RNFR eveCD2.r00 350
>RNTO eveCD2.r00+./+/ 250
>RNFR eveCD2.r01+./+/ 550
>How those commands work with W2K ?
>Is there any software more intelligent thant Explorer?
>Thanks for help.



Written in response to:
Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Alex: Thursday, December 27, 2001 at 8:40 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Mike: Saturday, February 2, 2002 at 3:11 pm)
*re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (John Manton: Tuesday, February 5, 2002 at 12:29 pm)
*re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Roch Burton: Saturday, September 13, 2003 at 11:34 am)
*re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Alex R: Sunday, June 20, 2004 at 7:22 pm)
*re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (ERICA: Sunday, March 6, 2005 at 3:51 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Alex: Thu, Dec 27, 2001, 8:40 am)
-re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Lazerus: Thu, Dec 27, 2001, 11:11 am)
-re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Alex: Fri, Dec 28, 2001, 7:45 am)
-re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (David Fritzke: Tue, Jan 29, 2002, 1:39 pm)
-re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (MattTheRatt: Wed, Jan 30, 2002, 7:36 pm)
-re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (David Fritzke: Thu, Jan 31, 2002, 6:38 am)
-re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Krod: Thu, Feb 21, 2002, 4:44 pm)
*re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Guido Govers: Sun, Mar 17, 2002, 8:22 pm)
-re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Karl Fife: Fri, Feb 1, 2002, 11:34 pm)
-re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Mike: Sat, Feb 2, 2002, 3:11 pm)
-re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (John Manton: Tue, Feb 5, 2002, 10:36 am)
-re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (David Prendergast: Tue, Feb 5, 2002, 12:23 pm)
-re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (David Prendergast: Tue, Feb 5, 2002, 1:24 pm)
-re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (drew: Tue, Feb 19, 2002, 7:39 am)
*re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (StarLine: Sun, Mar 3, 2002, 4:46 am)
-re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (John Manton: Tue, Feb 5, 2002, 12:29 pm)
*re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Matt C.: Mon, Mar 4, 2002, 3:18 pm)
-re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Roch Burton: Sat, Sep 13, 2003, 11:34 am)
*re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Roman: Thu, Oct 2, 2003, 4:30 am)
-re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Alex R: Sun, Jun 20, 2004, 7:22 pm)
*re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Wayne Harrington: Tue, Jun 22, 2004, 2:31 pm)
*re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (ERICA: Sun, Mar 6, 2005, 3:51 pm)
-re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Matt Darnell: Sun, Sep 21, 2003, 8:13 pm)
-re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (csutton7: Tue, Oct 21, 2003, 9:26 pm)
*re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Richard Novell: Sat, Feb 7, 2004, 8:32 am)
-re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Richard Novell: Sat, Feb 7, 2004, 8:44 am)
-re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (T. Hill: Sat, Mar 13, 2004, 4:49 am)
-The SIMPLE Answer (Producer: Fri, Mar 19, 2004, 4:35 am)
*re: The SIMPLE Answer (zendoren: Sun, Mar 30, 2008, 11:56 am)
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