Re: Strange Files in C:\Windows
- From: Mikhail Zhilin <mwz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 10:26:40 +0300
Jack,
I've read already your reply with the content of these files.
Most likely my assumption is really wrong. In theory, such files may appear
when run some of the non-English-language programs, which create the files
with the non-Latin letters in the names.
BTW, Google result:
"Your search - "IDLIST0=0,65535" - did not match any documents."
But if you search for simple: IDLIST0
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=IDLIST0&btnG=Search
then you'll see, I think, the same squares in the articles names of, say,
Japan sites. That means the font used doesn't include the symbols of the
non-Latin letters/hieroglyphs of this language, and substitutes the squares
for them.
--
Mikhail Zhilin
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
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On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 18:08:25 -0500, "Jack Gillis" <XXXXXXXX@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>Thank you Mikhail.
>
> I think I will wait a few days before doing as you suggest and let my
>addendum to my original post settle in and see if it triggers an answer.
>Would you mind looking at the addendum?
>
>Thank you again.
>
>"Mikhail Zhilin" <mwz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:q27uq1hcc7e7ju5p8ub3cc9ls7q71frig5@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Let's hope I'm wrong in my assumption -- but I would check the HDD using
>> the
>> diagnostic utility from the HDD manufacturer's site.
>>
>> And probably run (Start -- Run...):
>>
>> chkdsk C: /f
>>
>> before (chkdsk will run after restart; you can read its log via the Event
>> Viewer after system will boot in Windows).
<...>
>> ======
>> On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 17:07:28 -0500, "Jack Gillis" <XXXXXXXX@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Thank you.
>>>
>>>Have done all the scans you suggested plus Spybot. Nothing found by any
>>>of
>>>them.
>>>
>>>Any further suggestions?
<...>
>>>> "Jack Gillis" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> There are about a dozen or so files in my C:\Windows folder whose names
>>>>> appear as small rectangles. I believe they are all 1KB in size. Like J.
>>>>> Buffett's tattoo, where they came from I haven't a clue. Does anyone
>>>>> have an idea? Should I be concerned?
>>>>>
>
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