deleted folder reappears

[scaniavabis]

I have a folder within Docs (Vista) called 2008, just over 7Gb in size. When I delete it, empty the recycle bin and restart the PC it reappears in Docs again. Has anyone ever come across this sort of thing before?

[ChuckFickens]

I've seen it with spyware infections.... but I have a hunch here that it's not that.

Does it get recreated with the 7Gb contents still in it?? if so... weird and no idea!

if it appears empty I would guess that you have something running at startup that uses that path as the default for something so it's recreating the folder automatically.

[scaniavabis]

it doesn't reappear with all previous contents, just one or two sub folders and strangely not always the same ones!

[VHG]

Try running a few spyware programs and see if they find anything.

Malwarebytes for example

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

Also Spybot Search and Destroy and Adaware.

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free .php

[scaniavabis]

Chuck, your answer made me think a little harder and I found the problem. I had moved the default storage folder for Windows Mail to 2008 last year so that a sync of the folder to back up the contents also kept a back up of my email. I don't use windows mail much, so when I started using it again recently it was replacing the folder 2008 and its mail subfolder whenever I restarted the PC. Thanks Chuck, job sorted