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Hi,
First post here, I'm pretty much a novice at this. For about the past year I have been having a "~ under a windows icon" just appear on my desktop from where I know not. I have had a couple people tell me I have a virus, but when I run my virus scan I find nothing. I don't know if this thing is harmful or not I usually just trash it.
Anybody know what it is? I can't get any help from microsoft.

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Re: icon appears on desktop?

Sounds like a hidden Microsoft temporary file. When you open an Office document, MS automatically makes a copy of it. You normally shouldn't see the copy because the folder options are by default set to not show hidden files. Open Windows Explorer and then open the Tools/Folder Options menu. Select the View tab and look down to the "hidden files and folders" option and set to NOT show hidden files.
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Re: icon appears on desktop?

Quote originally posted by seapappy ...
Hi,
First post here, I'm pretty much a novice at this. For about the past year I have been having a "~ under a windows icon" just appear on my desktop from where I know not. I have had a couple people tell me I have a virus, but when I run my virus scan I find nothing. I don't know if this thing is harmful or not I usually just trash it.
Anybody know what it is? I can't get any help from microsoft.

seapappy
The icon you see is a bug in Outlook Express which creates a dummy file everytime you make a change in your OE Address Book. You can delete it with impunity. MS claims to be working on it but apparently with no great urgency because it really isn't significant.

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