Do you recognise this suspicious folder: Malicious or Benign

Question

Does anyone recognise this suspicious folder that sits on my C drive?

The folder sits on my C drive at C:\cacde6d0fd849a939328ab\ The name obviously looks like a hash/encryption/or junk text.

The folder has the following contents:

Do you recognise these files and know if they are benign parts of windows or malicious program files?

What makes me suspicious is that the folder and all its files are locked and cannot be deleted and because of the root folder name. I am aware that sometimes when Windows is uninstalling a program and the uninstallation is interupted that these kinds of folders can remain and have exe's in it by the name of htstub.exe (or something similar). Is this folder something similar, ie, benign?

Answer 1

No, this is either an uninstallation store for a windows update, or the temporary files left over after installing a windows update (KB2840628 a security update to .Net Framework 4). you can delete the folder, but that means it will be harder to uninstall the update in future.

Answer 2

The folder is mostly likely left over from a windows update. You need to go the security tab and "take ownership" of the folder. Then you can delete it.

Answer 3

Windows extracts the files from VC++ or .Net framework Updates to the drive with most free space. This is such an temporary folder which you can safely delete after you've installed the update.