Ý <--- what is this folder?

[Professor Frink]

I just noticed this new folder -- Ý-- at the root of C:, and it is empty. Does anybody know what it is, and where it came from?

[jroc]

Looks like you updated with a Vietnamese made version of something...and now have a trojan....but then its not like you provided anything to go on

[argon007]

It is a Vietnamese character.

[jroc]

Don't even go there...... Ý is Vietnamese

[Alanoll]

did you install Apple Quicktime?

[Professor Frink]

Alanoll:

Yes, I did install Quicktime. But Quicktime has been in my unattended install for a while now, and I don't ever remember that folder appearing before.

[Alanoll]

It's quicktime's temp directory folder. Sometimes it gets deleted, sometimes it doesn't. meh. The installer routine isn't always perfect

[Professor Frink]

But how do I get rid of it with my clean.cmd? If I say

rmdir "c:\Ý"

that doesn't work. And

rmdir "c:\Y"

doesn't work either. Is there any way to get rid of it automatically?

[Alanoll]

do a search on those funky characters...

I believe the remedy, was open up the file (that deletes the folder) on EDIT, through a CMD prompt (EDIT BATCH.CMD) and then enter the command there and save. You'll still need to use the Ý though

[Professor Frink]

I tried that, and my batch file doesn't find the folder. Has anyone successfully deleted that folder through a batch file? If so, please post the code, or how you did it.

Thanks!

[Professor Frink]

I decided to delete it via an autoit script. C: should only have three folders when it's done -- Documents and Settings, Program Files, and WINNT. So the following autoit script opens up explorer, scrolls down to that stupid Ý folder, and deletes it.

I consider it safe, because for those random times when the Ý folder is NOT created, it simply delets the next item down, which is my clean.bat file (it has already run, so it's not needed anyway).

; --- Start ---

Run("C:\WINNT\explorer.exe /n,/e,/select,c:")

Sleep(5000)

Send("{ENTER}")
Sleep(500)
Send("{DOWN}")
Sleep(500)
Send("{DOWN}")
Sleep(500)
Send("{DOWN}")
Sleep(500)
Send("{DELETE}")

; --- End ---