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2008-10-21 10:39:41

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Aries_37: arrivederci frog; +368|6842|London

Some mysterious stuff has showed up on some of my hard drives.

My I: drive (external mybook) has a file called ~!~ie6.~!~ with ~!~ as the file type.
My J: drive (external also) has an empty folder called msdownload.tmp.

Both files are 0kb, and I am currently looking for more mystery files on other hard drives. Google shows them to be related, as they are both related to ie6 but ~!~ is not searchable. Is this a virus? I haven't tried dling or installing ie6. I hate ie and use mozilla.

2008-10-21 10:43:58

#2

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6834|NYC / Hamburg

Running a virus scan can never hurt, but it sounds like temp files. You should be able to delete them without problems

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2008-10-21 10:47:51

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Aries_37: arrivederci frog; +368|6842|London

Cool thanks. Virus scan came back clean. I'm gonna delete the files, but have no idea where they came from, or why they were on two separate external hard drives.

2008-10-21 10:50:24

#4

SgtHeihn: Should have ducked; +394|6753|Ham Lake, MN (Fucking Cold)

Have you been downloading stuff? If so, a torrent's start as some weird file names.

2008-10-21 17:47:40

#5

san4: The Mas; +311|6955|NYC, a place to live

Could be temp files from Windows Update.

2008-10-21 17:51:47

#6

jsnipy: ...; +3,277|6789|...

Search them in Process Explorer to see whats using them. Like max said, virus scan first.

san4 wrote:
Could be temp files from Windows Update.

the second one is

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2008-10-21 18:43:16

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Cheez: Herman is a warmaphrodite; +1,027|6705|King Of The Islands

jamiet757 wrote:
Aries_37 wrote:
Some mysterious stuff has showed up on some of my hard drives.

My I: drive (external mybook) has a file called ~!~ie6.~!~ with ~!~ as the file type.
My J: drive (external also) has an empty folder called msdownload.tmp.

Both files are 0kb, and I am currently looking for more mystery files on other hard drives. Google shows them to be related, as they are both related to ie6 but ~!~ is not searchable. Is this a virus? I haven't tried dling or installing ie6. I hate ie and use mozilla.
The ~!~ just means that however the file was created, it was named ~!~ie6~!~ and someone put a dot before the last ~!~ so Windows thinks it is a ~!~ file. That does not mean that file type exists. My suggestion is to just delete it, if it is 0kb then it probably isn't very important.

Not to mention they're on his external, so if it was important it'd crack the shits if it wasn't there.

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