Comments on: Find Files (and Spyware) that are hidden even when Show Hidden Files is enabled

By: Greadman

Greadman — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:44:00 +0000

don’t forget with windows 7 or vista you have to run this as administrator otherwise you see nothing and the same will apply when trying to delete the files / folders

By: Pai_mei

Pai_mei — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:58:00 +0000

Thanks!!! i had a virus i couldn’t remove and this helped me a lot

By: Philp

Philp — Wed, 18 May 2011 17:35:00 +0000

Hi attrib /s I findstr SHR the same comand like dir / ah

By: jeremy

jeremy — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:48:00 +0000

absolute life saver. thank you very much for this. worked a treat on herss.exe

By: guest

guest — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 20:32:00 +0000

thanks!! i had a trojan but not anymore with this command ;-)

By: Alexander

Alexander — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:56:00 +0000

Not good enough. I cloned a disk, and now have files which not even “administrator” can delete, nor can “administrator” change the attributes. I figure it is because I have taken the cloned disk (windows 2000) and attached it as a peripheral disk to a brand new system (windows xp.) The peripheral disk is now “F:”. My theory is that the file is associated with an identifier (like a guid) that says “administrator” the old system, but is an unknown user on the new system. And, there is nothing I can do. Somehow, the “administrator” in windows is impotent. I need to get out of this “windows” and “pc” world — things don’t work.

By: Pricetech

Pricetech — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:10:00 +0000

Uncheck “Hide protected operating system files”

By: mike

mike — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:08:00 +0000

dude super thanx i got this one stingy spyware surfin the web u helped me alo

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:10:00 +0000

how to open command prompt ?? & how to set my pc in safe mode :(

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:26:00 +0000

Had some Conflicker variant which did the following:

Prevented all exe’s from launching.
Disabled registry edits.
set its own exe to be hidden and then turned off hidden files and blocked folder options.
Luckily however it allowed me to use command prompt

using attrib -r -s -h trojanfilename in cmd helped me to delete the virus exe. From here I could then launch exe’s and begin sorting this crap.
After that its just a process of renabling regedit, reassigning the default program for exe’s using a registry entry, and then running MalwareBytes to clean up.

Thanks alot to OP for the help.