I know it should be there Ipstenu. But it’s not. The entire folder has vanished from both versions of WPMS that were hacked. That’s why I was wondering if it’s something that hackers might delete? It would give them the ability the add new sites and not allow you to access the backend of them. Anyway, maybe I’m just spooked and reading more into it.
I can’t rule out that my hosts (HostGator) deleted while cleaning out and regaining control. However HG were very good with their communications and I doubt they selected one single to folder to delete from both installs without advising me about it.
* The mu-plugins folders were still in place, along with sunrise.php. But the plugin folder deleted