Re: New File appears named "~"

From: dcdon (olekingcoleNO_at_SPAMhotmail.com)
Date: 01/08/04 

Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 16:34:52 GMT

Hi Jason,

It is nothing to get upset about. Microsoft knows about the
bug. All it amounts to is a copy of your present Address
Book.
Try renaming it to Jason.wab, and open it after. It might
squawk about changing the name, but don't worry.You actually
can delete it without effecting anything. I hope that helps
alleviate your worries. 

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"Jason" <marinejld@comcast.net> wrote in message
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Greetings,
I was working on my Win2kSrv  at home and noticed a new file
in the top
portion of the start menu.  The file was not put their by
myself and I am
the only person that uses the srvr machine. The File was
simply named "~"
(without quotes of course).  I thought this was odd and
deleted the file.
It was approximately 180k.  When I came into my office this
morning which is
on a completely different network not in any way connected
with mine at
home.  I sat down at a Win98 machine which is a "guest"
machine and found a
file with the same name "~" but this time on the desktop.
There are no
roaming profiles involved and the two computers are not
networked or linked
in any way.  What is this?  should it be of any concern?  I
looked at the
file with both Wordpad and a HexEditor and found nothing to
identify what
type of file it should be....???????
Thank You
Jason
marinejld@comcast.net
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