WTF is a file called '~.'

[confus-ed]

This is a new one on me .... have a user who keeps getting a file called '~' appear on his desktop (just '~'{tilde} no suffix) ... so I opened it with notepad & it appears to be the contents of his address book !!

No viruses, trojans or anything iffy I can detect (with a barage of tools/av proggies) .... I get rid of it but it just keeps re-appearing after 4 or 5 days, this is a pretty clean instal, I'm confident the user hasn't added anything 'bad', but I suppose there's a new net nasty everyday ... most confus-ed on this one !

Suggestions ... leads please :)

[Stalemate]

It is the result of a windows update 330994 patch.

http://www.pchell.com/support/tildefile.shtml http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/wd/images/smilies/thumbs.gif

[confus-ed]

Thank you muchly ... http://members.cox.net/rbddc12/bow.gif of course an Adept reply :thumbs:

[arch0nmyc0n]

Thank you muchly ... http://members.cox.net/rbddc12/bow.gif of course an Adept reply :thumbs:

I was wondering what that was myself, thanks for the info... now I can explain it properly to customers...

[Stalemate]

Thank you muchly ... http://members.cox.net/rbddc12/bow.gif of course an Adept reply :thumbs:
You're quite welcome.

It's weird stuff like this that keeps me interested in IT and allows me to keep current until I find a full-time job.

[ilovetheusers]

Cool. I didn't do much wrong when I deleted it.

[silencio]

Sweet! I had that file last week myself. Thanks adept :)

[Tekboy]

Yep. Just ran into that one last Saturday. When will Microsoft "patch" THIS patch? :uke: