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Old 01-27-2007, 11:58 AM   #1
Memnoch
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Join Date: February 28, 2001
Location: Boston/Sydney
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I'm getting really sick of Windows.

I don't know when or how this happened, but I noticed yesterday that I wasn't able to download from the web. On checking my My Downloads folder I noticed that the attribute had changed to "Read Only". I changed this back but decided to check my other folders - and EVERY SINGLE folder I have has had the attribute changed to read-only. I'm guessing this was a virus of some kind, but I haven't picked anything up with Norton AntiVirus.

I've changed my main folders back to non-read-only, but am now trying to work out the best way to change them back to before. I tried to Sys Restore to last week, but it wasn't able to do so (and I don't have any more restore points aside from that one).

I suppose the quickest way would be to go to all my root folders and change them back to non-read-only (which would do the same to all the subfolders) but I'm worried that I might inadvertently change the attributes of read-only system folders as well.

Any advice??
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