Re: ~ file on desktop

From: Bruce Hagen (Nospam_at_mymail.invalid)
Date: 06/18/04 

Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:56:07 -0700

This is a bug in the April 2003 Cumulative Patch. It is basically a
backup of your address book. MS is aware of it and at some time will
provide a fix for it. You can safely delete it.

References:
http://supportdesk1.iit.edu/outexp.htm
and:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/problems/bugs.htm#~file 

-- 
Bruce Hagen
   ~IB-CA~
"geoguy" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1e29f01c4555b$b57a1bc0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Periodically, my Outlook express spits out a textfile on
> to my desktop w/ the symbol ~ and if you read the file
> with notebook it contains a corrupted version of address
> book. Norton says its not a virus itself, but could a
> Trojan be doing this. This usally happens after I close
> out of Outlook Express, but not always. What is this
> thing?

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