<dee_ss2001@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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It is apparently an unintended consequence of "April 2003, Cumulative Patch
for Outlook Express (330994)"; a temporary work file when using your address
book.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/...94/default.asp

"Roger Parks" <Roger@NoSpam.com> wrote in message
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Thanks a lot, I was getting worried

I have the same problem with my computer.

An other stupid thing from Windows, why make a temp file ~ with all the
e-mail address of my computer on it ?It will just give the idea to someone
to create an other virus and reach that ~ file without any problem !!

Can someone tell me if by puting the ~ file on read only is working??

Thanks


<dee_ss2001@hotmail.com> a écrit dans le message de
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It's a bug, not intentional. And it is a copy of the address book. Rename it
with the .wab extension and you'll see. And why should it be easier (for a
virus/hacker/whatever) to read than the original address book?

And hasn't that party ended yet?


Shane


"Birdynumnum" <birdy@numnum.net> wrote in message
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"Heather" <fergie@nospam.com> wrote in message
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Not just if you add someone..also if you delete or amend details..

Nicky

The symbol "~" it is used also at the top of the letter "n" in some Spanish
words such us: "Niño", "Muñeco", "Coña", "Buñuelo" and many more.

Before the existence of Windows in its different platforms, there was an
operating system called DOS, there you will see also many files that start
with the symbol "~".

I still have an old computer (remember the 286 computers) somewhere in the
basement with a DOS operating system and a 3.11 version of Windows.

Banana Republic


"Heather" <fergie@nospam.com> wrote in message
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I've only just got off the other computer where I'm burning a CD-ROM to auto
install DR-DOS7.03, MS-DOS 6.22, and WFW 3.11 on the same partition.
Unfortunately I don't have an old computer or an video card so can only get
16 colours in WFW.


Shane


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"Shane" <arthursixpence@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I ran a multi-boot system PCDOS 7.0, MSDOS 6.2, WFWG 3.11
and NT3.51until late 1996 when I had to switch to Win95B. I
still have these installed on that old system and I fire it
up every once in a while.

WFWG 3.11 ran rock solid on top of PCDOS 7.0 but I had some
DOS utilities that wouldn't run on it so I had to boot into
MSDOS to use them.

Helix Software had a program called Hurricane that fixed the
WFWG 3.11 memory resource problems and made it one of the
fastest MS OS. They also had a great DOS memory manager that
allowed DOS to use up to 256MB of RAM.
--
Chas. verktyg@aol.spamski.com (Drop spamski to E-mail
me)

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 15:46:26 +0100, "Shane"
<arthursixpence@hotmail.com> wrote:

Because its's in a known location with known name?

Or indeed the root of C (I don't keep it on C).


Shane


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On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 12:52:16 +0100, "Shane"
Was thinking of one always in C:\

Depends on the level of access you have secured. Some toe-holds may
let you read a file of known name and location, but don't allow you to
query the regsitry or browse. From there, a C:\~ is was easier to
access than a C:\Guess\This\Path\WhatName.wab

The early reports were almost exclusively of one on the desktop, but no
doubt that's because you can't miss one on the desktop.


Shane


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i have been using Outlook Express for years and only recently did the "~"
file appear so it must be something other than adding deleting and amending
the address book because it has never been there before, onlyu in thw last
month or two, also the one on my rooty directory is nearly 200Kb

"nicky" <feckinghell@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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The Animaniac wrote:
It is a known bug with one of the updates to OE. MS is working on it.
Just delete the file.

On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 15:15:14 +1000, The Animaniac <aclements@optushome.com.au> wrote:

The file first started appearing, on the desktop, after
installation of an MS update back in March, or April.
After applying the update from the next month, it
started appearing in the root directory instead.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

"David W. Hodgins" <dhodgin1661@rogers.com> wrote in message newsprto083iwzpegei@nntp...
That's progress. It reminds me of working on high power HF
transmitters. You start out with a problem in the divider chain
or the synthesizer, fix that and you fire it up only to find it has
intermods revealed by the spectrum analyser - troubleshoot
that to the exciter stack, squeeze that out through the IPA, to
the FPA, and when you squeeze that gremlin out into the switch
matrix ~ it becomes the antenna rigger's problem.

I fixed many units that way. ;o)

On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 14:30:52 GMT, "David W. Hodgins"
The file is supposed to be C:\Correct\Path\filename~.wab (or is that
C:\Correct\Path\~filename.wab) but due to a fundamental screw-up,
becomes {current\path}~{.} instead - i.e. either proper name and
path never populate the buffer, or the buffer isn't pointed to by what
appends the ~ to it before using that as the file spec.

With coding like that getting into the wild (and remaining unfixed for
what, how many months later?) it's no wonder we have an endless
barrage of "unchecked buffer" screwups from MS.

Meantime, we have OE throwing a nice known-name file full of useful
information around several guessable locations. And we are told not
to worry about this, it's "harmless", and MS is working on it.

Mmm...NOT(OK)