I have been following this topic with interest. Here is my problem: On 12/24 I upgraded my computer from ME to 2000. It went very well. I had to download a few drivers and update some programs. I had to reinstall my Norton Anti-Virus. As soon as it was installed, I did a scan and 3 files had the Win32.Goner.A@mm virus. Norton was unable to quarantine them and the message was to delete them. I cannot find them. They are in C:\Restore\Archive\FS5.CAB. The files are A0001286.cpy, A0001294.cpy and A0001303.cpy. When I do a search for the files, nothing is found. I opened C:\Restore and all that is in there is DISKCFG.DAT, SRDISKID...., VxDMon.cfg, and VxDMon.dat. I scanned with Norton on each of these items and it said No Virus was Found. I also scanned on the C:\Restore file and got the same message that no virus was found.
I have been emailing with Symantic and they tell me different sites to go to, but they keep referring me to the article about System Restore which is in ME. I don't see it in 2000.
Does anyone know what these files are? If I choose the option on Norton to manually deal with the virus instead of automatically, I have the option to quarantine the file. It says it cannot do that. Then I get a message to delete the file and replace it with a clean file. I am afraid to try to delete them, since I don't know what they are! Could this be something left over from ME that I don't need now?
I hope someone can understand what I am trying to say!! Thank you for your help and Happy New Year!
Nancy Klocker
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 20:17:01 -0800
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: SOFTWARE? QUESTION
On 29 Dec 2001, at 20:56, Philippe J Beaulieu wrote:
> I recently lost a huge chunk of hard drive space. Careful searching of my
> hard drive has found a lot of hidden files on my system. in c:\restore\temp
> there are a total of 15,582 files ending in the extention of .cpy. On
> 12/25 between 9:19pm and 9:39pm there are 2,605 files most 1,249kb each in
> size for a total of 3.03GB space taken for that 20 minute period alone. What
> is a .cpy file and can they be safely deleted?
>
> Philippe Beaulieu [log in to unmask]
Is there any chance you were installing something at about that
time -- like, for instance, an OS service pack and selected the
option to "save information in order to be able to uninstall this"?
(I recently was asked to look at a friend's machine to determine
why it was running into various problems. On a 10GB drive, their
c:\temp folder contained about 6GB, including about four copies of
installation files from aborted/failed attempts to install a large
application....)
Dave Gillett
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 18:38:33 EST
From: Philippe J Beaulieu <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: SOFTWARE? QUESTION
Thank you to everyone that made the effort to help me. What I ended up
finding was that my c:\_Restore\temp folder contained over 15,582 *.cpy
files. 2640 for almost 3.5GB of space from Christmas day alone. A microsoft
knowledge document led me through the steps to safely remove all those files
returning my computer hard drive to normal
Philippe Beaulieu [log in to unmask]
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