File Security

[lee]

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A virus has created direcories and placed files on my computer and set the
NTFS security on them so that only the SYSTEM account complete rights.
Therefore I cannot remove these files, how can I get around this?

 

[ME]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.file_system (More info?)

are you sure it's a virus? i've never heard of a virus changing the acl on
files
assuming you are an administrator, have you tried to take ownership of the
files?

"Lee" <Lee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C6C79418-998C-48DD-909D-646703B86356@microsoft.com...
>A virus has created direcories and placed files on my computer and set the
> NTFS security on them so that only the SYSTEM account complete rights.
> Therefore I cannot remove these files, how can I get around this?

 

[lee]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.file_system (More info?)

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's a virus. My virus protection software catches the
actual Virus exe, but it has installed supporting files and directories;
these are the files that have the security set so that I cannot delete them.
They security has been set so that only the administrators can see and read
the files, not even change security. Therefore I cannot do anything with
these files. How would I take ownership of the files?

 

[ME]

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properties -> security -> advanced -> ownership

"Lee" <Lee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F780D564-AD61-4D7C-9EAF-35AEEE122D01@microsoft.com...
> Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's a virus. My virus protection software catches
> the
> actual Virus exe, but it has installed supporting files and directories;
> these are the files that have the security set so that I cannot delete
> them.
> They security has been set so that only the administrators can see and
> read
> the files, not even change security. Therefore I cannot do anything with
> these files. How would I take ownership of the files?