Help with Inetpub folder please

[akhavan]

Hi,

Yesterday I tried to login on a secure site. They had enhanced their security and I had to provide additional security for my account. Once finished I was asked if that was the computer that I would use for login. I said yes. Now I have a folder on my drive C called 'Inetpub". I checked the Google but everything there has to do with servers. I have T41P no server. When I try to delete, move or cut I get the following message "Can not delete Pickup: access is denied" Pickup is in a folder called mailroot. I can not change the properties on it.

Does anybody know why I have this Inetpub on my C drive and how would I get ride off it.

Thanks

Sepehr

[davidspalding]

Inetpub is created and used by various versions of Microsoft's Internet Information Services.

Right click My Computer, select Manage, and then browse the tree for Services and Applications, Internet Information Services or something like that. ..\Mailroot and it's subfolders are used by the Virtual SMTP Server (which I used for a few years).

I'm skeptical that some web site "created \inetpub" on your system, but then I don't know where you went browsing, maybe you picked up a Trojan. I also only have these services on my Win2k server, not my TP, so I presume you've got Windows 2000.

They had enhanced their security and I had to provide additional security for my account.

Care to give a little more detail about that?

[akhavan]

Hi David,

You are right. It did not have anything to do with the site. As you said I found it at My computer>internet information Service> Default Web Site = Properties Home Directory. But I can still not delete it. Do you have any idea how I can get it off my computer. It is driving me crazy. No matter what I do I can not delete the Pickup.

Thanks

Sepehr

[GomJabbar]

The tip I posted in this thread should allow you to get rid of that rascal!

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=13247

[davidspalding]

If you've got any of the IIS services running, or any service or utility that depends on them, you ought to just leave \inetpub there. It's like %windir%\prefetch\. You don't want to delete the contents just because you don't know what purpose it serves.

My hot tip: leave it there. Or remove the IIS components from Windows (APPWIZ.CPL). Want more info on the \inetpub folders, search http://support.microsoft.com .

[akhavan]

Thanks guys,

I removed it from Add/Remove Windows Components. I think I had accidentally installed it when I was trying to remove MSN Explorer.

Sepehr

[davidspalding]

Thought so.* Glad you worked it out.

* I forget that there are some innocuous Windows components that nevertheless require all or part of the IIS services.