Re: Files turn to zero-bytes

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Files are on hard drive, not on network or floppy. I checked today and the
number of zero byte files are spreading.

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

> Are the files on a local hard drive, a network share, or a floppy
> disk? If it's a network share, the problem could be
> network-related, such as described in
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=138014 (this particular
> article doesn't apply to WinXP though). If it's a floppy disk,
> then you shouldn't be opening Word files directly from a floppy,
> because doing so will probably corrupt the files or the floppy.
> Instead, copy the files to your hard drive and open the copies on
> the HD.
>
> John Barnes wrote:
> > Thanks for the suggestion. I downloaded the fix and ran it 2x, didn't find
> > worm.
> >
> > Any other ideas?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > "garfield-n-odie" wrote:
> >
> >
> >>One possible reason for the file size changing to 0 bytes is the
> >>ExploreZip worm... see
> >>http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/worm.explore.zip.html .
> >>
> >>John Barnes wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Using Office 2003, Win XP SP2. Tried to open files in Word and each one I
> >>>opened turned into a zero-byte file with no characters. Word erased most
> >>>files in a directory that way.
> >>>
> >>>Has anyone seen similar behavior?
> >>
> >>
>
>
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