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Unknown Folder

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  • Started 10 months ago by cas34
  • Latest reply from owen123
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cas34
cas34
Posts: 361

Hi,

A mysterious folder has just appeared in my E drive (partition where I save my music, games, videos, etc).

Name of folder is: 5a4eec463e8cc5298aa0d9 - this folder is also locked - size 0bytes

I have also recently found some malware which I removed using malwarebytes and emisoft anti-malware so not sure if they are both related.

Any ideas what I should do with the folder?

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Superevil
Superevil
Posts: 175

It's most likely a temp folder created by Windows Update. If you can't delete it try downloading Unlocker.

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Xhi
Xhi
Posts: 6298

Or if it's really 0 space, Fa-Git-a-Bot-it.

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Hermitt
Hermitt
Posts: 1310

cas34, you can also install "take ownership" then try to delete it.
http://www.howtogeek.com/?post_type=post&p=557

Jim

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owen123
owen123
Posts: 800

or try using file assasin

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