Hello,

I have weird folder names like "31477affc4ff17a5e3ba" SITTING in my C: and D: drives, not even inside are program FILES. Inside is a .exe file named "MRT.exe" which seems to have only appeared since I remounted my harddisk into my new Win7 PC from a previous Vista system. I tried mounting it back to Vista but the FOLDERS stay the same and look scrambled.

Whilst reading on the net I find ARTICLES that MRT-file is MALICIOUS software, but I dont agree and also by reading this link:
http://www.fileinfo.com/extension/mrt

Could anybody help identify whether these are newly created folders that I can delete, or whether these are corrupted folders that have signs to believe this the case? I havent tried recuva yet since I believe this is only useful for directories deleted that are in a recoverable and readable state. Any similar suggestions of usefull tools for recovery?

Thanks, BurtonThey aren't 'scrambled characters', they are 'hex strings', and the mrt.exe program files are the Microsoft Malware Removal Tool. (mrt is not the extension - .exe is the extension). They are not dangerous and it is safe to delete them. You may wish to keep the most recent such folder.