Do you mean a "~" by any chance? If so then I have had a similar thing. And what I found was that it was related to Outlook Express and updating your address book. If that wasn't a typo and you did mean "`" then ignore me :P
Well I don't know what it was couldn't make a snap shot of it as I was in the middle of something else and it got deleted in the recycle bin.
It was a folder that was at the end of my C: drive and the ` was placed right in the middle of the Y over the v area of the y. The directory was empty but it looked really weird.
scan after scan of Pest patrol, adaware, spybot, hyjack this, and Norton AV 2004 reviled nothing at all.... All have up to date defs and stuff. Just for the heck of it I even did the online scan from nortons web site... Guess I have to think that my rigs clean and go from there...
Well I don't know what it was couldn't make a snap shot of it as I was in the middle of something else and it got deleted in the recycle bin.
It was a folder that was at the end of my C: drive and the ` was placed right in the middle of the Y over the v area of the y. The directory was empty but it looked really weird.
scan after scan of Pest patrol, adaware, spybot, hyjack this, and Norton AV 2004 reviled nothing at all.... All have up to date defs and stuff. Just for the heck of it I even did the online scan from nortons web site... Guess I have to think that my rigs clean and go from there...
Thanks guys,
"g"
Um, defrag and run Chkdsk from Windows, please. Either you have a foriegn language folder name or a corrupt folder name. The accented Y is used for foriegn language fonting (I think Portuguese is one language that uses this), but on an English langauge box I would almost bet this is a corrupt folder name. That is why Chkdsk and defrag.
Also, the CHKDSK and defrag results will show if this is a temp glitch or something more. I hate corrupt folder names, ro foriegn ones on English language boxes. When DOS used to do that, it WAS an emergency, as the recovery tools stunk-- Norton Disk Doctor was likely as not to delete whole folder subtree when it found such, way back when. abnout the only thing it was good fro was to grab teh files it could parse and stick them in root for folks to play with.
So, will simply say-- not immediate emergency, but something to check now before the thing IS one and you have a Windows folder looking like YW~n!o#$.BAK instead of normal name.... Some things, it pays to be tib anal about, this is one such. Good thread to keep around for reference, even if not yet full bore "911response needed NOW".
Um, defrag and run Chkdsk from Windows, please. Either you have a foriegn language folder name or a corrupt folder name. The accented Y is used for foriegn language fonting (I think Portuguese is one language that uses this), but on an English langauge box I would almost bet this is a corrupt folder name. That is why Chkdsk and defrag.
Also, the CHKDSK and defrag results will show if this is a temp glitch or something more. I hate corrupt folder names, ro foriegn ones on English language boxes. When DOS used to do that, it WAS an emergency, as the recovery tools stunk-- Norton Disk Doctor was likely as not to delete whole folder subtree when it found such, way back when. abnout the only thing it was good fro was to grab teh files it could parse and stick them in root for folks to play with.
So, will simply say-- not immediate emergency, but something to check now before the thing IS one and you have a Windows folder looking like YW~n!o#$.BAK instead of normal name.... Some things, it pays to be tib anal about, this is one such. Good thread to keep around for reference, even if not yet full bore "911response needed NOW".
John D.
I guess it wasn't an emergency but I was in the process of trouble shooting thinking along the lines that I might have a bug and wondered if any one knew if there are any bugs that create directorys that had that y with the ` in the middle of it...
I'll do the chkdsk thing although I use O&O and its set to stealth mode so its constantly doing its thing...
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I am having some small problems tring to figure out if I have a bug that was missed...
thanks for you help,
"g"
The system is controlling you.
It was a folder that was at the end of my C: drive and the ` was placed right in the middle of the Y over the v area of the y. The directory was empty but it looked really weird.
scan after scan of Pest patrol, adaware, spybot, hyjack this, and Norton AV 2004 reviled nothing at all.... All have up to date defs and stuff. Just for the heck of it I even did the online scan from nortons web site... Guess I have to think that my rigs clean and go from there...
Thanks guys,
"g"
Dexter...
Um, defrag and run Chkdsk from Windows, please. Either you have a foriegn language folder name or a corrupt folder name. The accented Y is used for foriegn language fonting (I think Portuguese is one language that uses this), but on an English langauge box I would almost bet this is a corrupt folder name. That is why Chkdsk and defrag.
Also, the CHKDSK and defrag results will show if this is a temp glitch or something more. I hate corrupt folder names, ro foriegn ones on English language boxes. When DOS used to do that, it WAS an emergency, as the recovery tools stunk-- Norton Disk Doctor was likely as not to delete whole folder subtree when it found such, way back when. abnout the only thing it was good fro was to grab teh files it could parse and stick them in root for folks to play with.
So, will simply say-- not immediate emergency, but something to check now before the thing IS one and you have a Windows folder looking like YW~n!o#$.BAK instead of normal name.... Some things, it pays to be tib anal about, this is one such. Good thread to keep around for reference, even if not yet full bore "911response needed NOW".
John D.
I guess it wasn't an emergency but I was in the process of trouble shooting thinking along the lines that I might have a bug and wondered if any one knew if there are any bugs that create directorys that had that y with the ` in the middle of it...
I'll do the chkdsk thing although I use O&O and its set to stealth mode so its constantly doing its thing...
Sorry for the mis-use of the emergancy forum...
Later,
"g"