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by james

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I've had someone malicious get onto my ftp site and upload a bunch of files. The problem is that whilst there he also removed all security from the directories. I can now no longer do anything to the directories and files, even as administrator. What can i do? Also some of the directories have been given names with a space on the end and one directory has no name at all! I'm very stuck, any ideas?

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by tbragsda

Are you trying to delete with Explorer? Try from a command line. Have seen this work on NT FTP.

by dhouchin

He probably took ownership of the directories in question, you need to log on as an Administrator and Take Ownership of the files so that you can reset the permissions.

Make sure you understand why and how he was able to do that, assume that it will happen again, and do everything necessary to ensure that it doesn't.

Dennis Houchin, MCSE

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