Read Only Files question

[twebber]

Hello, A friend recently had a virus on their computer and all files on
the C Drive are now set to writeable.

Wondering which files should be set to " Read only"

There is no file sharing, nor multiple users, but only 1 user of the
computer.

I have tried to find a list of which files should be "Read only" but am
having difficulty.

Many thanks

 

[Plato]

Hello, A friend recently had a virus on their computer and all files on
the C Drive are now set to writeable.

Wondering which files should be set to " Read only"

That's an impossible question to answer.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Hello, A friend recently had a virus on their computer and all files on
the C Drive are now set to writeable.

Why, exactly, do you think this is a change?

Wondering which files should be set to " Read only"

Very few, proportionately.

There is no file sharing, nor multiple users, but only 1 user of the
computer.

I have tried to find a list of which files should be "Read only" but am
having difficulty.

That's not surprising.

Many thanks

Taking a quick scan of the Windows and windows\system32 folders on this
system, very few are read-only. In the system32 folder, I've got over
2,300 files, and perhaps 67 are set to read-only. In the windows folder,
it's 90 files and 4 read-only.

Go to a stock system, get to a command prompt, and type "dir /ar".

So back to the question: why do you think a change has occurred?

HTH
-pk

 

[Bob I]

I wouldn't worry much about the read-only on the files, Windows will
overwrite them even if it was set. Move on to something else.