A few months ago my PC became infected with Rootkit.Agent/Gen-TDS[V] It doesn?t seem to do much except prevent certain programs from running, including Piriform Defraggler (and M$ Defrag). Among the anti-malware programs only Superantispyware still runs, and that indicates that Rootkit.Agent/Gen-TDS[V] will be gone on re-boot, but still it hangs on!
Today, I decided I?d try a few things to get rid of the damn thing, which caused me to make a rare visit to the D: HD Partition, where, to my surprise there was an unfamiliar folder. Sitting there bold as brass, right next to Documents and Settings, was this folder called .Trash-1000 (note the filename starts with a dot). Two subfolders contained text files with what seemed to be cookies, and I recognised the URLs and names of videos.
My immediate reaction was: What are these doing here? And why has CCleaner not rid me of them! A little research turned up the fact that .Trash-1000 belongs to Ubuntu; there is discussion here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=785512
?and elsewhere.
It seems that Ubuntu is shutting down without deleting this folder and its content as it is supposed to.
For once not a shred of criticism can be aimed at MicroSoft, but I presume that this folder can be seen and its contents read by anyone with access to the PC, and as the text files contain words in a real language (English in this case) then a user?s surfing history would readily be revealed.
May I suggest that removal of this folder and its subfolders, Info and Trash is added to CCleaner.