Should I worry over this (an extra folder appeared)?

[Antoneo]

I was cleaning out my desktop because it was over grown with shortcuts and I happened to double-click the "My Network Places" folder. In it was a folder labeled with an IP address (I think its an FTP). From the properties of it I see that it was created on Friday, March 08, 2002, 1:13:50 AM. I am able to "open" the folder when I double click and when I run a netstat, I see that it seems to be a RoadRunner ip.

Now, I have no recollection of this and I am behind a router with a dsl connection. Uh should I be worried and can this result from normal browsing? Should I just delete the folder?

EDIT: Hmm... I tried copying a file to it and was denied because I don't have permission to do so. But the lights to flash on the router and seems to be at least able to communicate with it.

 

[gotsmack]

I'd be very worried

 

[Antoneo]

Originally posted by: gotsmack
I'd be very worried

Oh come on, seriously... I don't want to sound like a paranoid freak or whatever but this is wierd. No one else uses this computer...

Or maybe I am a paranoid freak?!?!?!???


AIEEEEE!!!!NOONONO!

::Que Twilight Zone Music::

 

[bmacd]

sounds like trouble. Could be that somebody established a direct connection with you via lan-linking (vpn?)

-=bmacd=-

 

[Viper GTS]

Sounds to me like you're seeing a shared folder on someone else's box - ie they should be the worried ones.

Viper GTS

 

[Antoneo]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Sounds to me like you're seeing a shared folder on someone else's box - ie they should be the worried ones.

Viper GTS

Hmm.. Well there is nothing in the folder and I can't seem to go anywhere with this. I'm not on a vpn and the folder musta been there since March and it doesn't go away after a reboot.

I guess I should just delete and move on with life?

 

[Utterman]

Maybe you connected to an FTP, because windows sometimes saves FTP's in My Network Places.