Thank you for the Knowledge Base article Kerry !
I'd tried to search the KB, but didn't find this article.
I think you have hit the nail on the head. The whole thing started when I
tried to save an attachment from gmail to my external drive (which I have
done before with no problems) but for some reason, this time gmail said the
folder was read-only. Hmmmm..... maybe Google changed something ? All
these years and I'd never noticed that the folders are 'read only'. So much
for being observant.
The other 'wierd' thing that occured - I attempted to restore a System
Restore Point that was about 3 days old, thinking some recent virus or
external control had set the read-only attributes, and a restore point would
clear it up. The restore seemed to 'hang', at a completely black screen with
no sign of drive activity for what I thought was too long, so I ended up
reinstalling (repairing) XP from the original CD, which then required
installing SP2, IE7 and a whole host of security updates..... Fairly
annoying, but doable. I dunno what that was all about, maybe I was just too
impatient to let the restore finish ?
"Kerry Brown" wrote:
> "Not just paranoid" wrote in
> message news:C78771DD-1935-4CA9-A54D-4E20956CD368@microsoft.com...
> >I believe there was a recent Automatic Update loaded to my computer, and
> > today I noticed that EVERY file and folder on my computer is now set with
> > the
> > READ ONLY attribute. Is this somehow considered a good thing for security
> > ?
> > If this is something to do with a security update, can I disable it ? I
> > really do have files that I need to change frequently. If it is not a
> > security update, is it some sort of weird attack on my computer ?
>
>
> Is it every file or just the folders? It's normal for folders to show as
> read only. Windows ignores this.
>
>
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326549
>
> --
> Kerry Brown
> MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
>
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/
>
>
>