Performance on my 64bit AMD R3000 Compaq has been declining. Norton anti-virus was taking forever to scan. Hidden sub folders were apparent in my temporary internet files folder. Two of these folders I discovered by watching the Norton scan path and filenames. I deleted 50MB worth of ~.emf files from one folder. I found another 50MB of various file types in another folder. I then used a CMD line prompt to scan for more hidden folders and files. The dir/s command listed 46036 files taking up 9.4GB of space. These files had not cleared out with disk cleanup or delete all off-line content.
I believe I've discovered a vulnerability and think it possibly useful that I share this information with the community.
All the best,
/Rob
These files are not visible using Windows file manager.
Attempting to delete files and sub folders from the Temporary Internet Files folder is giving me "access denied" and other errors.
for example:
\Content.IE5\K3AE6V83 contains a file called cavillgallery[1].htm that I cannot delete
Some files had hidden and system attributes. It took a while but I think I have this cleared out. Used a Command prompt and much time.
