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stomatoez   09-09-2009 at 09:41:39 AM

Hi Buddies,
Yesterday I ran a cleaner named R wipe and clean and then towards the end it showed a query dos error after that the computer hung up and after i restarted, I found my disk space reduced by 12gb. I searched high and low. In the end i found out that in C: there is a hidden folder with a funny name zzAB$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$236A1222b550.5076 I tired deleting it then it says it is protected. Then I opened in safe mode and still it couldn't be deleted..so thought of asking you fella if anybody encountered any such problem. thanks for your replies.

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Bronze Win XP badge aford10   09-09-2009 at 11:26:10 PM
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Boot into safe mode. Download and update malwarebytes. Then do a full system scan. There could be some infected files.

When your done, you may want to download and run Ccleaner to see if there are registry errors.


Message edited by aford10 on 09-09-2009 at 11:27:30 PM
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number13   09-10-2009 at 05:52:55 AM
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restore the computer to a time before you ran the errant program

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