re: Bizarre Undeleteable/UnRenamable Folder zzF0~~~~ etc
Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 1:08 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Mark
(1810 messages posted)
To avoid booting Windows and therefore activating the malware, go to
fprot
They have an anti-virus DOS program that you can download. Download the program and
transfer it onto a CD. Then boot using a Win98 boot disk to an A: prompt, then type
X: and press Enter to change to X:prompt (where X represents your CD drive letter).
Finally, type f-prot.exe c: and press Enter. You can get the W98 bootdisk software
from www.bootdisk.com After that you might need to run a repair to your OS.
If that does not work then I have one other idea but let's see if that works first.
One other thing, did you run HijackThis and post in that forum?
On Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 10:13 pm, amby19 wrote:
>Thanks again, Mark! Unfortunately, none of your suggested techniques and tools
did
>the job (and I did try them most thoroughly). Note also that I examined it with
>G Anti-Virus tool, an incredibly powerful tool that employs both the Kaspersky and
>the Bit Defender engines and takes an incredibly long time to operate. All failed
>to find any problem. Dealing with a situation like this probably just isn't in
their
>designs.
>
>I also had previously tried Spybot Search & Destroy, Ad-aware SE, Zone Alarm anti-malware,
>Panda, and Microsoft's tool. (And I tried the rest on the pages I've been directed
>to here.) But the one that I have by far the most confidence in, A-Squared anti-malware,
>did no more than the rest: Nothing.
>
>Here's a guess as to why they're all missing the problem: Unlocker, Killbox and
MoveOnBoot
>would not even allow me to act on the folder (although for two of them it did show
>up in their browsing routines). I'd try choose it, and then two of the programs
>either did nothing or said there was nothing to delete! Killbox thought there was,
>and promised to delete it next reboot, but did not. It's still there.
>
>Isn't it possible that the native Windows routines for browsing to a specific folder
>simply won't work with a name like this? Which would be precisely why the infector
>created it with this name?
>
>My guess is that I need some kind of special disk/file editor that bypasses the
normal
>Windows approaches. Any suggestions on such a tool?
>
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