[plug] Nasty windows viruses (somewhat on topic, really!)

[James Devenish]

In message <20040713042756.GF7515 at cp.yi.org>
on Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 12:27:56PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> So what I really want to know is, how can I find out what files it was
> poking around in and for how long it's been going on

If that is not possible, you might at least able to use `find` and its
-atime option to see if any pre-existing files have been unexpectedly
accessed.

> Utterly unrelated question while I'm here: is there a flag to rm to
> tell it to remove files from directories chmod'ed read-only?
> Something like 'rm -rf --try-harder'...

Would it be feasible for you to use `chmod -R` or `find` to do a "+x"
before using rm?