Hello, I have a sony vaio running windows xp.pentium 4, 1,59ghz with 384mb of ram. In my pictures folder a file appeared called leavecri. When I put my mouse pointer over it, the description is a tic file 28.0 kb. When I click on the properties it has nothing,0 bytes and no description. Under the properties I click on the virus tab.It states "the file does not exist,or requires higher privilege to...see the virus log for details." on this tab is a description of " leavecri.tic " I have searched everywhere trying to find out what this is. When I try to delete or rename this I get an error message " can not delete (or move) (or rename) file: can not read from source file or disc ". Does anyone know what this is? Do I need this file on my computer and or how do I delete it. Another file keeps popping up in my images file. The only desciption is a little ( ~ ). I have know idea where this comes from? This file I just delete!But it keeps reappearing. I have and I use nortons, pc-cillian, trojan remover, sygate firewall, ad-aware, and spybot.I have done online scans at trend, nortons (sys), pcflank, and a couple others. Nothing has ever been detected on my system. Does anyone know what the he-- these are? I run no cookies except for msn, msn hotmail, and passport to log into hotmail. Can someone please help me and tell me what these files are. I thank you very much for your time and help!

You can download a .tic file viewer at the following: File Library Tank863.. PS: I am looking for more infor for you on this TIC file...

A .tic file appears to be used in Unix and Linux for a BBS type program... but I could be wrong. When you do a search on your computer... start button search... all files and folders and put in the parameters *.tic does anything appear? reply back... Tank863

Hello Tank 863, I thank you for taking the time to try and resolve my little problems. To answer your question: in my search of my machine entering tic, the only thing that is found is " leavecri.tic " and the location is in my pictures folder. This is the only file on my computer with "tic". I thought about downloading the viewer you mentioned, but I am afraid to open this file. Soon after the "tic" file appeared, the other file " ~ " in my images folder started appearing. I am able to delete this. This " ~ " file keeps reappearing.( only in the images folder ). The only description is the little wavey line. (o bytes) nothing else. I have searched windows,google, ect, trying to find out what these files are. I read about the linux and unix link you described and became more baffled?? I searched for tic files relating to linux and unix with the name leavecri, and found nothing. I just hope it is not some kind of virus,worm,spyware ect. I am just baffled that I can not get rid of this "tic" file and where did it come from. Nothing on my system seems to be effected execpt the " ~ " file that keeps reappearing. This seems to contain nothing! Again, Tank 863, thank you for your time and help in trying to resolve this problem for me. I must be drunk,lol

OH YA Tank, (I forgot) When I do a scan with nortons for viruses on the - leavecri.tic - nortons tells me the - leavecri.tic - contains ( 15 FILES ) ?? Thanks again !!

hi bill, assuming that the file leavecri.tic is a virus of some kind, cause i can't find anything on this: try going to the internet and open up the tools button hit the option button, and delete all internet temp files including offline, delete cookies, and history, go to temp files and delete all tmp files. then clean out your recycle bin. also check out your win and sys.ini files for unusual starts. this is one of the reasons why many people like dos, you could probably delete the file in dos, but since xp is an ntfs system try deleting in safe mode: scan machine with anti-virus, anti-trojan, if you can install regprot, a free registry monitor, go to www.thepublicworks.com security section and link to it from there. also if you can afford BoClean, get the best anti-trojan and run it. as with tank863, i find this case baffling, and maybe anyone like the capt., the kid, jackg, wawadave, www, may have an answer. hope this helps, all the best, murve

I found out what a .tic file is: you can find it on the following site: File extensions lookup it says that the .tic file is an extension used by Arcinfo Coordinates File (GIS-related file). It would be maps of some sort. That would explain why it is in a zip type file. Also.. the following web site is ARCView... Arcview 3.x TIC file The coverage file used to store tic coordinates and tic IDs for a coverage. Hope this helps... maybe the tic viewer will help after all... Tank863