Guest twebber Posted August 24, 2007 Posted August 24, 2007 Hello, A friend recently had a virus on their computer and all files on the C Drive are now set to writeable. Wondering which files should be set to " Read only" There is no file sharing, nor multiple users, but only 1 user of the computer. I have tried to find a list of which files should be "Read only" but am having difficulty. Many thanks
Guest Plato Posted August 25, 2007 Posted August 25, 2007 Re: Read Only Files question twebber wrote: > > Hello, A friend recently had a virus on their computer and all files on > the C Drive are now set to writeable. > > Wondering which files should be set to " Read only" That's an impossible question to answer. -- http://www.bootdisk.com/
Guest Patrick Keenan Posted August 25, 2007 Posted August 25, 2007 Re: Read Only Files question "twebber" <rwebber@iprimus.com.au> wrote in message news:uAUx3vp5HHA.5164@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Hello, A friend recently had a virus on their computer and all files on > the C Drive are now set to writeable. Why, exactly, do you think this is a change? > Wondering which files should be set to " Read only" Very few, proportionately. > There is no file sharing, nor multiple users, but only 1 user of the > computer. > > I have tried to find a list of which files should be "Read only" but am > having difficulty. That's not surprising. > Many thanks Taking a quick scan of the Windows and windows\system32 folders on this system, very few are read-only. In the system32 folder, I've got over 2,300 files, and perhaps 67 are set to read-only. In the windows folder, it's 90 files and 4 read-only. Go to a stock system, get to a command prompt, and type "dir /ar". So back to the question: why do you think a change has occurred? HTH -pk
Guest Bob I Posted August 27, 2007 Posted August 27, 2007 Re: Read Only Files question I wouldn't worry much about the read-only on the files, Windows will overwrite them even if it was set. Move on to something else. twebber wrote: > Hello, A friend recently had a virus on their computer and all files on > the C Drive are now set to writeable. > > Wondering which files should be set to " Read only" > > There is no file sharing, nor multiple users, but only 1 user of the > computer. > > I have tried to find a list of which files should be "Read only" but am > having difficulty. > > Many thanks > >
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