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Malware hides folders on external drives.

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Tedski_TX Posts 2 Registration date Saturday September 8, 2012 Status Member Last seen September 8, 2012 - Sep 8, 2012 at 08:56 AM
Ambucias Posts 47356 Registration date Monday February 1, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen February 15, 2023 - Sep 8, 2012 at 04:01 PM
Hello,

I've contracted the "Hidden Folders" malware. It only affects my external drives. I ran unhide.exe to no avail, I tried a registry fix mentioned on MS support, and I tried running attrib -h -r -s /s /d j:\*.*

On the last one, it came back with 3 lines of messages, all saying Access denied: J:$Recycle.Bin yadda yadda yadda

Any idea what I can try next?

Thanks

Tedski



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Ambucias Posts 47356 Registration date Monday February 1, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen February 15, 2023 11,169
Sep 8, 2012 at 04:01 PM
Gee Tedski

Thanks for letting everybody know. You are a swell person! You win a special honor mention.
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Tedski_TX Posts 2 Registration date Saturday September 8, 2012 Status Member Last seen September 8, 2012
Sep 8, 2012 at 09:05 AM
Okay, I found the answer. Every site I went to mentioned only to click on "Show hidden files, folders, and drives." That's not enough. I finally found a web site that also said to uncheck "Hide protected operating system files"

That did it.
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