On Tuesday 31 December 2002 4:54 pm, Don Phillipe wrote:
> I have a small server I use for my home business and use it mainly for
> anyone who needs to send a large file that will not go through email. I
> have an anonymous UPLOAD FTP account that I open up to receive these. From
> time to time I forget and leave this open (I know this is stupid but I
> thought I could just erase anything that was put there because the small
> drive would fill up real soon). However, I see someone has hacked into my
> server and put a bunch of trash that I cannot delete because when I try to
> delete it, Windows 2K says "cannot find the specified file". I have spent
> 2 days researching this and cannot find any reference of how to correct
> this. I did find some reference to looking at the security tab for these
> files but the security tab is missing! I found some tools which are
> supposed to set owners for files and they don't work on these files. Here
> is the log from where the hacker attacked below. Any help would be
> appreciated. I don't want to have to rebuild my server if possible:
If you have access to a linux bootable cd/floppy you can delete it in that.
Must have NTFS support though.
I have done this before using this technique, took 2 minutes.
Cheers
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First, by reflection, which is noblest;
Second, by imitation, which is easiest;
and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
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