Picnic:
Have you resolved the error?
If not, try the following in a dos prompt:
go to "Start", "Run" (if you don't see run press the Windows Key + R)
Type in "cmd" and press "ok". a command prompt will open.
Go to the drive where the undeletable folder resides for example D:
So you will have type in D: <enter>
go to the folder where the problem folder is located. example: D:\_cache\delete\
Let's assume the folder is called "test" (d:\_cache\delete\test)
so you would type:
D:<enter>
cd _cache\delete<enter> (As you can see you don't open the problem folder itself)
type: dir /x<enter>. A directory listing will appear containing the
8.3 names of the folders and files, in my case it showed: test
then type: rd test<enter> (replace test with the folder name
you see)
The folder will be deleted.
use "del" instead of "rd" for single files
As for the a/v argument, Dan:
Well, as always, everyone has their favourites and are completely biased in their opinions.
For me, i wouldn't touch AVG with a 10ft barge pole, why? Because a system i was fixing had that installed and it did nothing to fix the problem. All it would do is say "you've got x virus/trojan/backdoor/whatever". It didn't and couldn't resolve the issue.
Uninstalled it and dropped MSE on and guess what... It removed the problem, without any sort of argument.
What you have to remember is that, like other a/v programs, MSE is one of the newer ones around. And sure it has it's bugs. Like everything else. But for what i need, it does it's job perfectly. It also has regular updates and fixes applied to it, which in my opinion is important. It's a good thing.
False positives aside (which a lot of a/v apps report), i think it's one of the better free apps out there.
Of all the a/v apps i would recommend if you want to pay for one, i would always say Kaspersky (which reported false positives a lot and also missed things that MSE has picked up on from a few MAME Roms that a friend gave me). I used that until this year when i looked into MSE and found it to be well within my expectations for an a/v program.
So while you may be right about that particular incident, Dan. I've seen the same problem occur with other viruses and such with several different a/v apps. People trust what people trust. That's never changed in the almost 20 years i've been working in IT. A bit like the argument of AMD vs Intel. Back in the day there was another CPU vendor known as Cyrix. How many of you had one of those in your machine? Once upon a time though, they were almost on par with Intel. But no one trusted them as very few had any experience with them.