Folder problem (possible hacking)

[Jeff Vian]

On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 05:03, Franco wrote:
> Hi, on my server i have any folder /var/tmp/   /.tmp/ there are a folder 
> without characters and i can't cd into it.
> Can anyone help me?

This sounds like what happened to me once (some time ago) when my
machine was 'rooted'.  I could see the directory only from one level
above, but not at the level it was located. 

The directory name is likely done in non-printable characters.