Hi my parents computer seems to be acting oddly. Its on XP MCE and I've never known it to act like this when I've used it before.
On every hard drive there is a folder called System Volume Information which is hidden and un-deletable. System restore is disabled on the machine but the files are still protected. The only reason I notices was because my Dad just bought a new external hd and I connected it to the machine to format it and the folder appeared on that too. None of my external drives have ever had that folder before so I'm really suspicious of it. I in the end tried to connect the new external hd to a windows 7 machine to delete the folder but it still couldn't be deleted.
I've scanned the folders with norton, micro trend and AVG all of which found nothing.
I formatted the hd on the w7 machine which got rid of the folder. However after connecting it back to the XP computer the folder has reappeared again.
I'm currently running a full system scan using AVG to see if anything shows up anywhere else.
In the folder is a coded text document called logging.txt which I was worried could be part of a data miner trojan.
Its quite possible its part of windows but I have never seen it before after using XP MCE for over 5 years.
Any help would be appreciated.
On every hard drive there is a folder called System Volume Information which is hidden and un-deletable. System restore is disabled on the machine but the files are still protected. The only reason I notices was because my Dad just bought a new external hd and I connected it to the machine to format it and the folder appeared on that too. None of my external drives have ever had that folder before so I'm really suspicious of it. I in the end tried to connect the new external hd to a windows 7 machine to delete the folder but it still couldn't be deleted.
I've scanned the folders with norton, micro trend and AVG all of which found nothing.
I formatted the hd on the w7 machine which got rid of the folder. However after connecting it back to the XP computer the folder has reappeared again.
I'm currently running a full system scan using AVG to see if anything shows up anywhere else.
In the folder is a coded text document called logging.txt which I was worried could be part of a data miner trojan.
Its quite possible its part of windows but I have never seen it before after using XP MCE for over 5 years.
Any help would be appreciated.
