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I've just found a folder on an 8 GB flash stick with some weird stuff going on. The folder is called Future and, according to Properties, it's 71.6 GB. Most of the items in it are dated in the future – 2041, 2021, 2028 etc. It won't delete, copy or cut. I'm formatting the disk to get rid of it in case it's a virus or some such nefarious thing, but I'm curious to know how it got there. Take a look at the screen shots.
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Question: Has anyone else had this happen?

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Either you're a time traveler, or it may be a virus. Are there any missing files or folders from that drive? If there is, then it's probably a virus that has renamed it all or corrupted the properties of the files (Which might explain the dates and gibberish file names). I recommend you wipe the entire drive and immediately perform a virus-scan of your PC. That's the only thing i could thing of causing something like that.

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This thread might help as well. Check it out.

Files names in pen drive turned into gibberish text

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