Weirdness

[Slice]

I keep getting a file saved to my desktop every so often and its name is ~ Anyone ever heard of this being a virus or somthing? When I click on properties it doesn't have any extension but is like 70k in size. I can delete it no problem but then in a day or 2 it just shows back up. This is at my computer at work, I don't have this problem at home.

[JIMINATOR]

sounds like a program is making a backup file, and it is going onto your desktop...

[DiTomasso]

I have the same problem. I think its coming from outlookexpress and is a backup of something.
Just del them had no problems with that. :wave:

[OUTLAWS high ping camper]

found this, so far:

From what I can tell, it is a parsing of contacts found in Outlook Express.
I have this file too, located in the root of drive C. The last modified date
for mine is June 04 07:13PM. There are two other files which have near the
same modification date and time -

pagefile.sys 06-04-03 07:32PM
hiberfil.sys 06-04-03 07:32PM

The file "~" also contains some CLSID references to "dsuiext.dll" (Directory
Service Common UI) and also the "default user ID" for Outlook Express. I
don't think this "~" file is related to anything viral.

Regards,

Patrick Nolan
Virus Researcher - Fortinet
pnolan@fortinet.com

Found this too:

I also experienced this problem, and learned from a MS Usenet newsgroup that
it is a bug in the latest Outlook Express update, when you add a new contact
to the address book it makes a backup of your address book which is the file
on the desktop. MS says that it is safe to delete if you don't want it
there. Supposedly when you open the file in a text editor you can see your
address book. It was created on my desktop after running the Outlook express
newsreader. Some others reported having it created on the root of their C:
drive. Hope this helps.


Dave

[Slice]

Thanks HPC! :)