- Path name too long.
- Posted by Martin on October 19th, 2005
Hi all,
Appearantly Macromedia Flash was installed on my pc. I don't think I asked
for it, but....
Anyway, in my documents and settings folder, in sub directory:
Macromedia\Flash player\#SharedObj it has created a whole bunch of sub
directories with weird names such as 22FP49XH and each of these directories
has a sub directory who has itself another sub directory... that goes on and
on until the path name is too long. Windows refuses to delete this directory
sturcture because the path name is too long. Appearantly these Macromedia
programmers had forgotten about this llimitation. Does anyone know how to
get rid of this crap? Uninstalling everything from Macromedia didn't work
either... My virus checker crashes on it, which leaves me kinda vulnerable.
Tia,
Martin
- Posted by Yves Leclerc on October 19th, 2005
Flash is not normally considered spyware. It is a browser plug-in that gets
install with Internet Explorer's ActiveX system. After the install, it
becomes a "system" file.
"Martin" <amsterdmr@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%230BQbwK1FHA.1564@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Hi all,
>
> Appearantly Macromedia Flash was installed on my pc. I don't think I asked
> for it, but....
>
> Anyway, in my documents and settings folder, in sub directory:
> Macromedia\Flash player\#SharedObj it has created a whole bunch of sub
> directories with weird names such as 22FP49XH and each of these
> directories
> has a sub directory who has itself another sub directory... that goes on
> and
> on until the path name is too long. Windows refuses to delete this
> directory
> sturcture because the path name is too long. Appearantly these Macromedia
> programmers had forgotten about this llimitation. Does anyone know how to
> get rid of this crap? Uninstalling everything from Macromedia didn't work
> either... My virus checker crashes on it, which leaves me kinda
> vulnerable.
>
> Tia,
> Martin
>
>
>
>
- Posted by Martin on October 20th, 2005
Who said anything about spyware?
I just think it's a crappy written program...
"Yves Leclerc" <yleclercNOSPAM@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:OIKbHwL1FHA.4064@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Flash is not normally considered spyware. It is a browser plug-in that
gets
> install with Internet Explorer's ActiveX system. After the install, it
> becomes a "system" file.
>
> "Martin" <amsterdmr@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%230BQbwK1FHA.1564@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Appearantly Macromedia Flash was installed on my pc. I don't think I
asked
> > for it, but....
> >
> > Anyway, in my documents and settings folder, in sub directory:
> > Macromedia\Flash player\#SharedObj it has created a whole bunch of sub
> > directories with weird names such as 22FP49XH and each of these
> > directories
> > has a sub directory who has itself another sub directory... that goes on
> > and
> > on until the path name is too long. Windows refuses to delete this
> > directory
> > sturcture because the path name is too long. Appearantly these
Macromedia
> > programmers had forgotten about this llimitation. Does anyone know how
to
> > get rid of this crap? Uninstalling everything from Macromedia didn't
work
> > either... My virus checker crashes on it, which leaves me kinda
> > vulnerable.
> >
> > Tia,
> > Martin
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
