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Suspicious Folder Refuses to Be Deleted
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<blockquote data-quote="Atochayr" data-source="post: 928740" data-attributes="member: 127631"><p>After running a virus scan with ClamXav 2.0 beta, I found a folder named /dev which cannot be opened. Believing it to be host to a virus for various reasons, I attempted to delete it in terminal (with root access) but it said "Resource Busy" and wouldn't go away.</p><p></p><p>I assume that this means it is busy running whatever virus it has. How can I delete this folder when even root access won't work? Is there some way I can pinpoint the process at work in /dev and quit it?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Atochayr, post: 928740, member: 127631"] After running a virus scan with ClamXav 2.0 beta, I found a folder named /dev which cannot be opened. Believing it to be host to a virus for various reasons, I attempted to delete it in terminal (with root access) but it said "Resource Busy" and wouldn't go away. I assume that this means it is busy running whatever virus it has. How can I delete this folder when even root access won't work? Is there some way I can pinpoint the process at work in /dev and quit it? [/QUOTE]
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