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Can't Delete User from Recycle Bin

After telling my Windows 2000 server to show me hidden and archived files, I looked at the recycle bin, and see two entries for user accounts:

S-1-5-21-...LONG NUMBER...-500 and S-1-5-21-...LONG NUMBER...-1110

Even after I empty the recycle bin, these two are still there. If I try to delete them, I get a the message, I get a warning that says it's a system folder and warns me not to delete the files.

Can I safely delete these files?

Is this evidence that our system has been compromised?

Thanks!

Seth

mikeleebrla

>>Is this evidence that our system has been compromised?
no,,, just as the error says, those are system files and you shouldn't delete them.
if they are in the recycle bin, you must have deleted (actually just moved to the recycle bin) them at some other time
why are you trying to delete them?

when you say you are looking in teh recycle bin, are you talking about the one on your desktop, or did you browse to a system folder somewhere?

sfjacobs

ASKER

I was looking at the recylce bin via the command prompt:

c:\recycle

with dir *.* /a h /s

the items mentioned above were visible.

I'm concerned about them, because some people say a hacker trick is to put things in the recycle bin that won't be removed by emptying the recycle bin, and to hide them from view. Since I didn't see these items via the GUI, and they remained after I empited the trash, I was concerned.

Seth

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sfjacobs

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Excellent! Thanks.

Seth