Viri hiding in 'System Volume Information' on WinXP

[CHokKA]

I was gonna suggest either this or just take owership of the folder. As far as I know you shouldnt have any issues deleting the contents of it then

Except I'm pretty sure that taking ownership of said folder would have some serious repercussions as it is meant to be accessed by the System and altering the permissions in this way might prevent access in future.

If you ever need screenshots for Windows XP or other Windows operating system, I find http://screenshots.modemhelp.net very useful for that.

 

[bledd]

It's a pity nlite/vlite aren't updated any more.

I think Microsoft employed him as a dependency checker / stability tester of sorts..

I'm reluctant to use nlite now as there have been loads of windows updates since the last release.

I just use it for basic removals, like languages/keyboards, MSN Explorer and general crap that isn't used by anyone

 

[FoxEye]

I think SLAX and Linux Mint allow NTFS write access by default.

If your distro doesn't have it by default, you just need NTFS-3g.

On debian:
>su
>apt-get update && apt-get install ntfs-3g
>umount /dev/sda1
>mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/localdisk1

(the device names and folders above are just examples)