WTF is a file called '~.'

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October 21st, 2003, 07:08 AM
confus-ed

WTF is a file called '~.'

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 :)
October 21st, 2003, 07:48 AM
Stalemate

It is the result of a windows update 330994 patch.

http://www.pchell.com/support/tildefile.shtml https://forums.windrivers.com/
October 21st, 2003, 08:21 AM
confus-ed

Thank you muchly ... https://forums.windrivers.com/ of course an Adept reply :thumbs:
October 21st, 2003, 09:05 AM
arch0nmyc0n

Quote:

Originally Posted by confus-ed

Thank you muchly ... https://forums.windrivers.com/ 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...
October 21st, 2003, 11:16 AM
Stalemate

Quote:

Originally Posted by confus-ed

Thank you muchly ... https://forums.windrivers.com/ 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.
October 21st, 2003, 11:46 AM
ilovetheusers

Cool. I didn't do much wrong when I deleted it.
October 21st, 2003, 02:51 PM
silencio

Sweet! I had that file last week myself. Thanks adept :)
October 22nd, 2003, 11:14 AM
Tekboy

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