Temporary Internet Files ( hidden directories)

[CM]

A couple questions:
What is the purpose of Content.IE5 Temporary Internet Files? Specifically
those directories which cannot be seen when I try to drill down into the
TempIntFiles directory.

Why can't these directories be seen? I know they exist because a virus
lodged itself in a couple of them.

Based on antivirus detection the path name for the directory ends like
this:

.....\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\KRJN289T\count[1].jar

Again, What's the purpose of the Content.IE5 files? Is anything deleted
from them when I delete from the TempIntFiles via Internet Explorer?

Thanks,

CM

 

[dev]

/CM/ said:

A couple questions:
What is the purpose of Content.IE5 Temporary Internet Files? Specifically
those directories which cannot be seen when I try to drill down into the
TempIntFiles directory.

Why can't these directories be seen? I know they exist because a virus
lodged itself in a couple of them.

Based on antivirus detection the path name for the directory ends like
this:

....\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\KRJN289T\count[1].jar

Again, What's the purpose of the Content.IE5 files? Is anything deleted
from them when I delete from the TempIntFiles via Internet Explorer?

Nothing sinister; a management tool. Sometimes corruption causes
problems with the files, but they can be revealed and deleted...

Click on the VIEW menu|TOOLBARS, to enable the address bar (which appears
at the upper-right).

Click on TOOLS menu|FOLDER OPTIONS|VIEW tab and checkmark the box that
says "display the full path in the address bar.

In Windows Explorer, select the Temporary Internet Files item under
Documents and Settings\ <user name>\Local Settings...

The path shown in the address bar will be something like this...
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files

Add Content.IE5, so it looks instead like this...
C:\Documents and Settings\Howard\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files\Content.IE5

Select that entire line in the address book box, and press <enter>.

The I.E. 5 subdirectories (folders) should now appear in Windows Explorer,
just below the Temporary Internet Files listing. Delete those folders to
the RECYCLE BIN.