I don't know if this will work, but you may try installing Cygwin (a Unix environment on Windows). Then from a bash shell type rm -rf c:\tree\to\erase Better yet, you should probably reinstall everything on a freshly formatted drive from original media. Then restore your own files from a trusted (pre-nimda) backup. Otherwise, who knows what other "goodies" are hidden around your system now (keystroke sniffers, etc.) Good Luck, Lew Lefton ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Lew Lefton, IT Director | Phone: (404) 385-0052 | | School of Mathematics | FAX: (404) 894-4409 | | Georgia Institute of Technology | e-mail: lleftonat_private | | Atlanta, GA 30332-0160 | http://www.math.gatech.edu/~llefton | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Drew E. Gilkey wrote: > Went on vacation for a week, come back to see that my email server is > reporting that its comepletely full. Look a little deeper into it and I > see that people have uploaded tons of MP3's, Warez, etc.. Wondering how > they got in I start to do a virus scan and bam... Nimda was found... > Unfortunately now I have tons of files on my system that cannot > seemingly be removed... 2000 thinks they dont exist, yet they do and > they are taking up disk space.. I have managed to get one of the > directories removed but the other ones contained tons of locked files, > weird directory structures that make the system think that the files nor > directory dont exist, plus permission problems... Anyone got a tool that > will allow me to just delete the directory and all the subdirectories > this stuff is in? Or any advice.. I have tried using the ASCII > characters, etc.. but I just cant seem to get them to delete.. I can > access the folders via FTP, but when i try to delete them the OS cannot, > not can I download anything in the folder. > > --Drew Gilkey > Dgilkeyat_private > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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