Removing Blank Directory

[Claude]

Our FTP site got hacked and a directory tree was created (they put a movie
on it for others to pick up)...the starting folder has no name, it is blank
and will not let me delete it after I stopped the FTP server.

I get the following message: Cannot Delete File: Cannot read from file or
disk.

I tried deleting it from a DOS command and it wouldn't work.

The partition is NTFS on W2K SP3 fully patched.

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Claude

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Claude.

Can't you get the folder's 8.3 filename using the dir /x command in a "DOS"
window?

The topic comes up about a dozen times a week here and that USUALLY works.

RC

 

[Claude]

Hi RC,

Thanks a bunch, it worked just as USUALLY does!

I am surprised that this type of "situation" is posted so often this
newsgroup as I did a search on it prior to posting my own...anyway, it is
solved!

Thank you very much,
Claude