Appearing just recently, a blank folder (directory) in C:\ named....

$$deletethis$$$deletethis (then a long string of characters followed by
more $$deletethis

What 'dat? (It has been deleted)

I have never heard of anything like this before, but my suggestion to you is
to run anti-spyware and anti-virus software. If both come back negative, just
try and go through everything you recently downloaded or installed; maybe it
was just the result of something you installed?

_Mike

On 4/4/2007 5:51 PM On a whim, dev pounded out on the keyboard
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> Appearing just recently, a blank folder (directory) in C:\ named....
>
> $$deletethis$$$deletethis (then a long string of characters followed by
> more $$deletethis
>
> What 'dat? (It has been deleted)[/color]

Many moons ago IE updates used to put themselves off the root with a
"delete this folder" (or something similar). But they had the update
files still in them. Strange a blank folder would remain. If the
program that created it deleted the files, why not the folder (but
that's your question, right)?

--
Terry

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Mike wrote:[color=blue]
> I have never heard of anything like this before, but my suggestion to you is
> to run anti-spyware and anti-virus software. If both come back negative, just
> try and go through everything you recently downloaded or installed; maybe it
> was just the result of something you installed?[/color]

More likely it's a legitimate program.
Malware is more likely to install itself in Windows\System32 in a
directory called "DONT_DELETE_THIS_REALLY_IMPORTANT"

Alun Harford

Almost guaranteed to be an installation program folder from a program that
didn't clean up after itself at completion of install.

J

"dev" <dev@null.invalid> wrote in message
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> Appearing just recently, a blank folder (directory) in C:\ named....
>
> $$deletethis$$$deletethis (then a long string of characters followed by
> more $$deletethis
>
> What 'dat? (It has been deleted)[/color]