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Dear friends:

I cannot create a MININT directory on C:\, I always get the "Access
denied" message. I use WinXP Pro (TabletPC) with SP2, and C: is
formatted with NTFS. My account has full Administrator privileges. I
have all the files unhidden. Also, I disabled any antivirus and any
other protection software.

I gave full access rights to EVERYONE for C:\, and the problem was the
same. I didn't have any problem, however creating any folder in C:\
with *another* name, or creating MININT in another folder than C:\

Please note that the problem is that *nobody* can create a folder
called MININT in C:\, even if you try to create it through a cmd.exe
window or through Windows Explorer.

I could circumvent the problem creating a directory called MININT0 on
C:\, then booting in Safe Mode, and then renaming it to MININT and
copying all the needed files into it, but now, when I am in normal
mode XP again, I cannot see MININT's contents.

As I could create the MININT folder without any problem when booting
in Safe Mode, I assume that there is some driver or service installed
by Lenovo-IBM that originates the problem. If you boot in Safe Mode,
this driver or service is not running.

But today, I ran Sysinternal's (Mark Russinovich's) Rootkit Revealer
for the first time in my X41-TP, and the whole MININT folder (and all
of its contents) was marked as a possible rootkit because it is
"hidden from Windows API".

My PC is an absolutely new IBM-Lenovo X41 TabletPC. Does Lenovo-IBM
install a Rootkit on their PCs that load when Windows starts in Normal
Mode? Is this a similar case of Sony's?

Any hint?
Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!