Despite being completely out of game for the last year or so I still manage to encounter some really decent problems every now and then. The most recent one was a virus infection and really got me thinking. A SD memory card got infected with some stuff and it started to act real strange.
All the folders and files in it except for exes the virus created were gone. At first I thought they might be hidden. So I went folder option and changed it. But still no sign of them. I knew they weren't deleted cause the drive space was including them and my recovery software could detect them but wasn't marking them as deleted.
So I went to cmd and did this : -
attrib -s -h *.*
attrib -s -h *
attrib -s -h /d /s
And voila they were back. Good as new. Strange ?? You tell me. Any inputs guys ? I really wanna go behind the scene with this one and all helps are appreciated and if any other docs dealt with a similar virus and know which it is, it would be nice if you mention it. I wanna study it more. Thanks people
Cheers
DrV
Disappering files or folders
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Re: Disappering files or folders
hm, well, all the commands do pretty much the same, they simply remove the "hidden" attribute.
the first 2 ones do it for all files by using the wildcards, the 3rd command does it recursive by including folders too (/d switch).
if it was a virus it was a pretty cheap one, because if you replace - with + and run attrib +s +h /d /s the files (in your current directory) are all hidden again (that's what the malware did)...
the first 2 ones do it for all files by using the wildcards, the 3rd command does it recursive by including folders too (/d switch).
if it was a virus it was a pretty cheap one, because if you replace - with + and run attrib +s +h /d /s the files (in your current directory) are all hidden again (that's what the malware did)...
Re: Disappering files or folders
It's interesting that changing the hidden attribute only worked for him through cmd and not through the folder options.
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Re: Disappering files or folders
well, it depends on what folder options he used. "show hidden" files will not show a file if it is labeled as system file too (+s switch in the attrib command), so to see them both options have to be enabled in the folder options ("show proteced system files" too).
Re: Disappering files or folders
yes.bad_brain wrote:well, it depends on what folder options he used. "show hidden" files will not show a file if it is labeled as system file too (+s switch in the attrib command), so to see them both options have to be enabled in the folder options ("show proteced system files" too).
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Re: Disappering files or folders
you can use the God mode
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Re: Disappering files or folders
Nectrix placed my question perfectly. That's what I wanted to know. And yeah B_B both options were checked in my folder option. Can this be a system related problem that they didn't effect ??
