Well, quite apart from the evils of running XP on 128MBs of RAM... the folders are the hotfix and service pack uninstall folders. Unless any of them are very big indeed you shouldn't have to worry about them at least. By very big I'm talking multiple GB.
It does sound quite virusy what with the file deletion and the like, although it is possible user error could have caused this. A few questions...
How up to date is the system? Are there any other AV programs running on it? If you go to start->run->cmd and enter netstat and netstat -a what does it return?
That's the start point anyway. We can take this to mail if you'd prefer, but equally there may be others out there who will see something I'm missing. To be honest a reinstall may be the only sane option here, but it seems like such a cop out.
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Date: 2004-11-29 02:57 am (UTC)It does sound quite virusy what with the file deletion and the like, although it is possible user error could have caused this. A few questions...
How up to date is the system?
Are there any other AV programs running on it?
If you go to start->run->cmd and enter netstat and netstat -a what does it return?
That's the start point anyway. We can take this to mail if you'd prefer, but equally there may be others out there who will see something I'm missing. To be honest a reinstall may be the only sane option here, but it seems like such a cop out.