Re: Strange Files in C:\Windows
- From: "Jack Gillis" <XXXXXXXX@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 05:05:43 -0500
Thank you very much again, Mikhail.
What you say makes sense. I think I will just move them out to a floppy
where no program can find them and see if the system chokes and what chokes
it.
"Mikhail Zhilin" <mwz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2t2vq1157psmjaav39fuhepropvdgma4vc@xxxxxxxxxx
> 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
> Sorry, no technical support by e-mail.
> Please reply to the newsgroups only.
> ======
> 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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