Re: Suspect file ~

From: mto (nobody_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 07/14/03


Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 09:54:20 -0400


"Depresion" <blank@blank.com> wrote in message
news:KWwQa.9003$ju6.176651@newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net...
> I was having a look through the my pictures folder in XP and found a file
> who's name was simply ~ wondering what it was I opened it in notepad to
> find that is seems to contain all the e-mail addresses in outlook
express's
> contact list. In fact it looks to be a direct copy of the wab file, dose
anyone
> know of a program (virus/worm/Trojan type thing) that would have created
> this copy (I have an up to date Norton AV running) or is it more lightly
just
> an error?
>

Might as well have nothing as having Norton - up to date or not. Get
PcCillin http://www.antivirus.com or McAffee http://www.mcafee.com. I
prefer the PcCillin.

If you have SpyBot Search and Destroy (free at
http://security.kolla.de/news.php?lang=en ) it has a tool that will shred
the file in such a way that it will not be recoverable.



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