~ key virus?

KoNiT

Not sure if its a virus or not but its appeared on the desktop of 2 pc's on our network, one of them mine. its a 523kb file called "~"

Anyone come across this before?

dahamsta

Unlikely. Google Is Your Friend. (See the first result.)

Capt'n Midnight

drop it in to Notepad and see what is in it.
(do not use word etc. in case it has macros !)

the program name may be near the top or at the bottom
also check the date and time and look for other files of the same vintage ...



~ at the start of a filename or extension usually (but not always) indicates a temporary file.

Note: ~ will the 7th character of a long file name in 8.3 dos format.

Cake Fiend

I checked that out a while back after it started appearing on Net House computers, IIRC it's something to do with Outlook Express. I can't remember what it is though...

KoNiT

Cheer's for the prompt replies - I thought I would check here first (ask the experts!):D



I'll check on monday about using notepad- I tried wordpad

All I could see was lots of "wingding" type "O" characters


Is there a difference between using note / word pad for opening these file types?


I would hope that dahamsta findings is more likely as the file on my PC is larger than the other PC as my address book is bigger.

Thanks again

dahamsta

Use Notepad. It's an ASCII viewer, whereas Wordpad supports formatting. You want the former, not the latter.

adam