FTP Site Mapped Itself to my Machine. Just delete from Network Places?

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Percy

Somehow, an ftp site mapped itself to my Network Places on my Windows
2000 machine, including the entire directory tree.
How did that happen? Does this happen fairly often? I have never
encountered this before.

If I delete the directory, is that likely to remove the entirety of
the invading files?
Should I be looking for anything else on my machine?
Is there something else I need to do?

Thanks CW
 
I just noticed, the FTP site is also a subdirectory of an Internet
Explorer directory on my Windows Explorer directory tree.
I have no option to delete the subdirectory.
How do I get rid of it?
Thanks CWPercy
 
I do not think you will find the FTP site's files on your
machine. Do a Search for them.

All you're seeing is the cached directory structure
of the remote site in Network Places. This is normal, and
has happened here as well.

If you delete it, you're NOT deleting the directory,
just the reference to it. You can tell if this is true
when you try to delete it and you get a dialog referring
to Desktop.INI, which is where the info is kept.

If you want to be sure, just pull or disable your network connection
before doing it. That way, nothing bad can happen.

There's other ways to clear this list as well, I just can't
remember them. Perhaps another user will jump in here...
 
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