Re: Text and XML file-- Does this sound ok??

From: Br0wnbear (brownbearat_at_canadadotcom)
Date: 09/24/03 

Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:22:31 -0400

The windows update text file is probably the windows update.log
This file is updated everytime you go to windowsupdate.microsoft.com.
It holds the patches and updates you have installed.
The xml files are also installed from Microsoft, they are data files read
that are stored after your visit.
If you need more information on XML files, go to google and type in Message
format XML. 

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"Jennifer" <vtjenny97@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:0adc01c38223$633093a0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I, like hundreds of others, am getting a multitude of
> these "Microsoft" emails.  I use(d) Outlook Express to
> retrieve my email before I figured out how disable the
> preview pane.  So, even if I wanted to delete the message
> without opening it, I could not.  My understanding is
> that you could be in trouble just by opening the emails--
> even if you don't open any attachment.  So, I did a
> search of my C drive just to see if anything was saved to
> the hard drive after I opened one of the emails.  There
> is a text file called "Windows Update" and an XML file
> called "Info", I believe.  The date and time on these is
> around the time I opened the email.   Are these files
> supposed to be there, or are they trouble?  Can I delete
> them?

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