tilde shortcut

I have a shortcut that popped up on my desktop. It is
microsoft flying windows with a tilde character below it.
When I click on properties, I get: type: file 183KB, MS
DOS name (tilde), attributes: archive and nothing else. I
opened it without apparent harm, and got a large file of
code. I deleted it the shortcut, but it came back a
couple of days later. I was working with a Word
document. Is it associated with M/S Word? I also ran a
virus scan on it which was negative.

David
Tue Jan 27 14:46:33 CST 2004


"Weeksr" <weeksr@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> I have a shortcut that popped up on my desktop. It is
> microsoft flying windows with a tilde character below it.
> When I click on properties, I get: type: file 183KB, MS
> DOS name (tilde), attributes: archive and nothing else. I
> opened it without apparent harm, and got a large file of
> code. I deleted it the shortcut, but it came back a
> couple of days later. I was working with a Word
> document. Is it associated with M/S Word? I also ran a
> virus scan on it which was negative.

i believe that is an old bug in outlook express. it is not a security issue
or virus, try checking the office or oe groups or search the
support.microsoft.com database for the fix if there is one.

Torgeir
Tue Jan 27 14:53:56 CST 2004

Weeksr wrote:

> I have a shortcut that popped up on my desktop. It is
> microsoft flying windows with a tilde character below it.
> When I click on properties, I get: type: file 183KB, MS
> DOS name (tilde), attributes: archive and nothing else.

Hi

What is the ~ (tilde) file on my desktop?:
http://www.pchell.com/support/tildefile.shtml



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