Re: Files not visible

From: Emmers Presson [MSFT] (emmersp_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/08/04 

Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 16:40:13 -0400

It sounds like these computers my be compromised by a rootkit. Here are two
examples:

 -
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/freebsd.rootkit.html
 -
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.isen.rootkit.html

Call MSFT about this:

  http://www.microsoft.com/security/ 

-- 
Emmers Presson [MSFT]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"John" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:8f5401c432d9$59284580$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> Hello,
>
> I have many W2K machines and am having problems with a
> couple of them.  For some reason, certain files are not
> showing up locally.  For example, say that on machine A,
> there exists a file C:\temp\somefile.txt.  The symptoms I
> am encountering are that while on Machine A, that file does
> not show up in an explorer window (empty) or a DOS window
> (shows . and .., no file).  But from another machine B, the
> file shows up fine in an explorer window looking at
> \\A\C\temp\.
>
> It's as though A can't tell that the file is there even
> though it is.
>
> This happens with some files but not all (very few in
> fact).  There seems to be no rhyme to the file names that
> don't show.  This has prevented me from installing certain
> software as well as updates.
>
> My Tech guys do not know the answer and have encountered
> the same problem in a handful of other machines.  They want
> to wipe the machines and start fresh which is not something
> I want.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
> John

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