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Re: Need help with an undeletable folder.
« Reply #60 on: November 12, 2008, 09:37:07 PM »
Have you tried hooking it up to another computer and deleting the folder that way?
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Re: Need help with an undeletable folder.
« Reply #61 on: November 13, 2008, 12:32:26 PM »
I have seen this before. It normally happens when some A$$hole thinks its funny to plant a file in a zip file that has nonstandard characters. They are ASCII characters that windows can't show without a add on. And even than its a real pain to get rid of the file. It’s normally the way some hacker groups "tag" a machine to show that they were able to get to a machine.

The fastest way to get rid of it is to copy the stuff you want to keep off the drive and than format it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode
Info on Unicode....


You can try to install a unicode text editor and sometimes it will let windows show the file name.


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