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

[Cameron Patrick]

James Devenish 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.

*sigh*  I have /home mounted with noatime on my desktop, I suppose I
can at least check mtimes (which is what concerns me more).  Nothing
too suspicious seems to have been modified there, thankfully.

> > 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?

("+w" too, surely)  I'm using chmod -R now, was just curious if there
was a cleaner way.

Cameron.