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What is this file?
Name: JennyVTX Date: November 21, 2003 at 08:26:38 Pacific OS: WinME CPU/Ram: P-III/512SDRAM
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What is this file? The file is named "~" with an "_" under it?
Name: wawadave Date: November 21, 2003 at 08:37:09 Pacific
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hello is it on your desktop? out look express puts one with ~ on desktop. this one your posting sounds simaler.
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Response Number 2
Name: JennyVTX Date: November 21, 2003 at 10:00:49 Pacific
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The file is found in C:\Program Files\Accessories. Proerties show it as file type: file description: ~ 172 kb archived
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Response Number 3
Name: wawadave Date: November 21, 2003 at 10:23:45 Pacific
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ok this is not the file done by outlook. you might want to d/l spybotsearch and destroy,update it,run it. d/l ad-ware do the same. and try these scans. free trojin scan http://www.trojanscan.com/trojanscan panda scan http://www.pandasoftware.es/activescan/ housecall http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp nrav av http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/ virus scan http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php avast cleaning tool http://www.avast.com/i_idt_171.html mcafee avert stinger http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/ scans for open trojin ports http://scan.sygate.com/pretrojanscan.html test my sheilds grc https://nanoprobe.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 dsl port scan http://www.dslreports.com/scan pest patrol scan mediocre http://www.pestscan.com/Scan.asp
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Response Number 4
Name: Dog Date: November 21, 2003 at 17:02:50 Pacific
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The '~' or tilde file appears either on your desktop or in the root directory etc. depending on where outlook express opens from (don't know why the difference). It appears after a change has been made to the contacts list. It is a known glitch but I personally think it is a handy one. It lets you know when changes are made and is handy if it appears when you haven't made any changes yourself, it means someone else has been there and changed something. It is safe to delete as it is only a back-up of your contact list before the change was made.
HTH Dog
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Response Number 5
Name: JennyVTX Date: November 21, 2003 at 20:52:03 Pacific
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Thanks Dog. I didn't want to try to open it without doing some checking. As for Dave's reply. I've done the spy bot s & d, and the ad-aware, done the nortong scan, and am doing the panda scan right now. The Panda program seems to be taking a very long time to run. So far no virus has turned up. I was making a new boot disk today, and Norton popped up with a warning detecting 'virus like' activity trying to write to the A:\disk, specifically the Rundll32.exe was trying to write to it. So I'm still not convinced there is no virus. Will run through the other suggestions you made. Thanks
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Response Number 6
Name: wawadave Date: November 22, 2003 at 09:18:08 Pacific
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hello i figured it was the outlook file like dog pointed out but you made it sound like it was in anther place than it useally is. thats why the spyware virus alert flags went up. after the scan is done and your clean just delete it and know for sure your now safe. have a nice day.
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