I have a question about Stop Windows from saving the thumbnail cache (THUMBS.DB):

Thumbs.db remain hidden even though i have selected 'show hidden files and folders'...I uploaded a torrent to a website, and one of the peers who downloaded it mentioned that two of the files (both of them thumbs.db) were identified by counterspy as spyware...i checked for the files in question but they were not on my hard drive in the folders where they were reported to be...however, i noticed that they were listed in the list of files in the torrent i had uploaded...i also noticed that, when i right-click/properties on the two folders that are supposed to contain these thumbs.db files, they each say that they contain 1 more file than i can see within the folder itself...these extra files must be the thumbs.db files that are being reported as spyware, but how am i supposed to delete them when i have already selected 'show hidden files and folder' and they remain hidden...please help, i'm at my wit's end. cheers, - rvw

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Also uncheck "hide protected operating system files".

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thanks borg...who would have thunk that such an annoying problem would have such a simple solution...thanks a bunch, you saved me from explaining to my girlfriend why i threw the computer out of our 3rd storey window...my only problem now is that, while i have found the files that are supposedly the problem, i've scanned them mulitple times with spybot, counterspy,and avg, and they say the files are clean, so why does someone else's counterspy tell them the files are infected? cheers, - rvw


On Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 10:10 am, borg wrote:
>Also uncheck "hide protected operating system files".
>

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A thumbs.db file contains a small image and some characteristics (file name, length, date) for each image file in the directory. This is not active content; thumbs.db files cannot be infected. A spyware scanner may consider them a privacy threat because these files could keep miniature versions of image files you delete. I don't consider them dangerous, they're just annoying, especially if you try to move or remove a folder containing images.


On Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 12:42 pm, Robert Van Winkle wrote:
>thanks borg...who would have thunk that such an annoying problem would have such
>a simple solution...thanks a bunch, you saved me from explaining to my girlfriend
>why i threw the computer out of our 3rd storey window...my only problem now is that,
>while i have found the files that are supposedly the problem, i've scanned them mulitple
>times with spybot, counterspy,and avg, and they say the files are clean, so why does
>someone else's counterspy tell them the files are infected?
>
>cheers,
>
>- rvw
>
>

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