Found random/suspicious folders on my HD

Brabbinho

Brabbinho

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I was just going through my HD when I found to random folders which I don't remember seeing before.

Both are showing a padlock on the icon and are named:

78e833fcee439f5dcc

db8af4e1ffe9vbf9ed2265f64.

Upon opening they contain a myriad of folders named 1025, 1028, 1029, 1030... etc When I try any of these subfolders I get an access denied error message.

I've run a virus scan with Bullguard on both main folders and it has come up clean. Currently the only thing I have on this hard drive are photo's and media files and lightroom backups.

Any thoughts as what they could be and how to remove the folders?

Cheers
 
Where are the located directory wise? Is it a secondary drive?

Might be temp folders placed there when you installed a certain program.
 
They are on my J drive which is actually my 3rd HD for media files. The .exe file is:

NDP40-KB2742595

having done a quick google it looks like a windows update. Though why it would end up on this HD I havent a clue as they are set to install to C
 
Indeed, happens more often that you think, Windows has a bad habit of putting temp folders/files on other drives.
 
I'd say you could delete them, if you are worried doing so might cause problems just zip them up as a backup. Or create a restore point.
 
you can delete them in safe mode as well, as only temp folders, and not used in safe mode, then run ccleaner and do a reg clean, as it's just junk left over from installs and updates and temp files, nothing to worry about, thats why no scanner find them
 
They're just windows update folders

I wish MS would force their files to only unpack in the Windows\Temp\ folder
 
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