<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">I did a quick Google search and it looks like iis6.cabis part of the IIS web server. And the other files look like a virus based on posts on Google. Might have a virus that uses IIS.<br><div><span><br></span></div><div> </div><div>------------------------<br>Keith Smith</div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Thursday, December 5, 2013 6:56 PM, Stephen <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv8618501708"><div><div
dir="ltr">The iis6.cab is probably an installation file for iis6 to be called from setup. The IBM folder is not MS but IBM drivers and software. </div>
<div dir="ltr">Technically the all can be removed as the i386 folder is installation files so you don't need a cd or dvd. Personally I wipe and reinstall any oem built machine for these little "extras" to clean them out and only have what big want. </div>
<div class="yiv8618501708yqt9902702118" id="yiv8618501708yqtfd08375"><div class="yiv8618501708gmail_quote">On Dec 5, 2013 5:53 PM, <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:joe@actionline.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:joe@actionline.com">joe@actionline.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv8618501708gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Another reason to despise M$ ...<br clear="none">
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On my wife's win-xp laptop, a huge number of files seem to have showed up<br clear="none">
and I have no idea why or what they are for. Hundreds of them seem to be<br clear="none">
in these sub-directories:<br clear="none">
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C:\I386\IIS6.CAB<br clear="none">
C:\I386\COMPDATA<br clear="none">
C:\IBMWORK\XPLOCALE<br clear="none">
C:\IBM\WORK\QVIDEO<br clear="none">
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How can I figure out what they are for and/or if they can just be safely<br clear="none">
deleted (I hope).<br clear="none">
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On my Linux systems, I know how to capture a list of files, but how can I<br clear="none">
do that (via the command line?) on her win-xp machine so I could post<br clear="none">
them on a web page.<br clear="none">
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