Virus ??

geezerok · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 30, 2004 Posts: 3

On my Ipaq 4150 the storage card has a weird item on it and it will not delete

the item is : ' ignore_my_docs'?

My storage card had the tom tom maps but now it only has this item something has wiped it

I have tried an anti virus but it did not find anything

Any ideas what the item is guys

Thanks

Dave · Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 11:54 am Post subject:

ignore_my_docs is an entry that gets created by some applications which tells applications to stop scanning the My Documents directory for updates (AFAIK). It's not a virus and is totally normal.

DavidW · Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 8:57 pm Post subject:

ignore_my_docs, if it exists, tells the file control in Pocket PC to look in all folders on a storage card. That can make some software very slow in operation. More information is available on this here.

Whilst I have some things outside My Documents, for the sake of speed I create a My Documents folder on my storage cards, put files like MP3 playlists there, and make sure I don't have an ignore_my_docs file on the card.

There's only one known 'virus' for Pocket PC, and it politely asks you if it can infect other files, otherwise carrying no payload. It's just a proof of concept for a Pocket PC virus, rather than anything malicious.

Meanwhile, if look at ignore_my_docs, you'll almost certainly find it's a zero length file anyway.

David

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