Ubuntu surfing traces

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

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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.

The .Trash-1000 is safe to delete. Yes it is from Ubuntu and I hate it. It appears on any partition or disk where you deleted a file whilst using Ubuntu and the bad thing is that if do not empty the Trash on Ubuntu, the files that are supposedly stored on the Trash folder on Ubuntu are still stored in that .Trash-1000 folder. This happens on USB's as well. You delete a file on a USB using Ubuntu, you did not empty the Trash and you plug the USB on Windows, you see this .Trash-1000 and the files you thought were moved to the Trash folder in Ubuntu are sitting inside that .Trash-1000 folder, but if you did empty the Trash, the .Trash-1000 should still appear but its almost empty. I think this happens with some other Linuxes too.

I once used Ubuntu to check my USB for weird files and folders which to me are malware. I deleted them, but I did not empty the Trash cause I want to keep these things for a while, but when I plugged my USB on Windows, my AVG antivirus detected the infections in this .Trash-1000 folder inside my USB and they were the files I moved to the Trash folder in Ubuntu. It was so annoying.

I don't think this is within the scope of CCleaner's cleaning abilities since another operating system is responsible for making it. You can safely delete that manually with no problems if you want the files in the Trash folder in Ubuntu to be gone anyway.