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 -----Original Message----- From: riceat_private [mailto:riceat_private] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 1:34 PM To: incidentsat_private Subject: File on desktop called "~" Greetings. I'm starting to see some of my workstations getting a suspicious file on the desktop with the filename ~. Using a hex editor, you can see current email addresses that mail has been sent to. Neither Norton or Sophos detect a problem. Has anyone else seen this or have any infomation about what this might be? All workstations are running win2k or winxp. Outlook 2002 is the email app. Task manager on the afflicted machines shows all the same processes of non-afflicted machines. Many thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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