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How to delete bizarre files?

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Name: dcloud
Date: February 18, 2007 at 16:52:28 Pacific
OS: WinXP Home
CPU/Ram: P4/2046MB
Product: Intel
Comment:

I was dragged a URL from the address bar of my browser onto my 4GB OCZ flash drive, but then something odd happened. Somehow this one bookmark split into six other files and a folder, all with bizarre names (n3zo, `+$ngn, etc.). When I try to delete these weird files I get a warning message that says "Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk."

I have run my anti-virus software on the OCZ drive several times and it tells me there are no viruses. I even ran my spyware tools and had them scan the flash drive, but came up clean there, too. I was able to save the bookmark again (I put them in their own folder on the flash drive) without any problems.

If anyone has any idea about this weird problem or suggestions on how to get this bizarre file off my flash drive I would appreciate the help.

Thanks.



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Name: Tony Seiler
Date: February 18, 2007 at 17:30:58 Pacific
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get the program 'move on boot' http://www.snapfiles.com/get/moveon...

install the program, plug in the flash drive, open it up, and right click on each of the suspicious files. these files will be deleted upon the next boot.

However, I'd be leary that these files didn't surreptitiously become system files. After you have the flash drive cleaned. Search your Windows (particularly the system32 subfolder) folder for the particular folders.

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Response Number 2
Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: February 18, 2007 at 19:43:20 Pacific
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run scandisk


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