External Hard Drive shows two folders with random Number Strings
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There's other data on this hard drive that I frequently access (just whited it out to focus everything); these two folders appeared several months ago. I don't honestly know what I did before them. The hard disk is a samsung Spinpoint F1 inside an external enclosure.
Inside those two folders is a folder called "update" - in one of them, I can go into it, in another, it says I'm restricted from entering it.
I'm just curious if anyone knows what these folders are, if it's safe to delete them, etc. If not, is there a way to hide them?
Looks like a virus may have gotten to them.
You do realize that certain software installers will often extract its content to a random drive instead of the temp folder, right?
I have at least one of these folders in every drive.
[QUOTE=B1N4RY!;23752078]You do realize that certain software installers will often extract its content to a random drive instead of the temp folder, right?
I have at least one of these folders in every drive.[/QUOTE]
My dad's computer on Xp has the same stuff as Op, but my dad's AV is about 3 years out of date (Avg 6.0 or something?...) so I thought they [I]were[/I] virus's...
If your right, that's a small load of my mind.
Why is your dad's AV out of date?
He has no internet, and can not get it where he is (his house is basically cut into the side of a cliff in a valley.. So yeah, for whatever reason he can't get it..
Really he could bring it to my house and update via my connection to get a bit more virus coverage, but I don't think he's really that bothered, basically he only plays a soccer management game, and even then he lies about his birthday and such :v:
I doubt it's a virus, if you're doing any sort of extracting, [b]disk checking[/b], installing, etc., those kinds of folders tend to appear.
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I want to know how to get rid of these
i have 3 of them on my external HDD
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