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re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk
Tuesday, February 5, 2002 at 10:36 am
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Posted by John Manton (7 messages posted)


I had the same thing happen to me in the last few days. I was able to delete the 345MB of files, but am still left with the weird directories. I don't understand how they were able to do this in the first palce. If anyone figures it out, PLEASE let us know. Thx


On Saturday, February 2, 2002 at 3:11 pm, Mike wrote:
>I used the tips in this thread, and they worked great. But just how can a malicious
>uploader do all this? Is it a flaw in Windows?
>
>
>
>Mike
>
>


>On Friday, February 1, 2002 at 11:34 pm, Karl Fife wrote:
>
>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:
re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Mike: Saturday, February 2, 2002 at 3:11 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (David Prendergast: Tuesday, February 5, 2002 at 12:23 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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