re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk Monday, March 4, 2002 at 3:18 pm Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Matt C. (1 messages posted) Mine were from Germany. Bastards. Turns out they were turning my machine into a warez server, with lots o' movies and porn. Yuck. Upon seeing these files, I bought and installed ZoneAlarm Pro. Now, I run Win2k Server, and serve webpages. Thus, I have IIS running. My sites still served fine. Then, as if almost randomly, ZoneAlarm asks me (way after install) if I would allow IIS to have server rights. Thinking nothing of it, I clicked "yes". Suddenly, my bandwidth maxed out, and IIS was downloading files like mad! Turns out they were more of the warez files from whomever! I quickly took away server rights to IIS (bearing in mind it can still serve pages without ZoneAlarm Server rights), and used the helpful hints in this thread to delete the files. Now, to install Norton AV... :/ On Tuesday, February 5, 2002 at 12:29 pm, John Manton wrote: >Ditto... got hacked also. Your fix took care of the weird folders. Thanks! Any >idea on the methods they used? It sounds like a number of people started getting >hacked like this in the past week or two. My hackers were located in France and >Singapore. > Written in response to: re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (John Manton: Tuesday, February 5, 2002 at 12:29 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. 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) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum