I mean, look at this:



Any idea what might have caused this? (I downloaded the SFTPdev file very recently, so it wasn't affected by all this)

(Virus / malware checks came up clean)

Windows won't let me delete these files either (it says it cannot read from the source file or disk). I'll probably have to do it from within linux. My drive is fat32 so linux could probably make changes to it safely.

I don't use NTFS on this machine because I use linux on it too, and linux can't write to NTFS disks without the possibility of screwing everything up, or so I hear.

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[This message has been edited by Pagewizard_YKS (edited May 11, 2004).]

Virus? (I bet)

Corrupt Files?

Evil Black Bars of Death on Adress Bar?

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The Massassi JO/JA Single Player contest info

That looks very ill - is it affecting other folders or just that, and are these files (bizarre though it may sound) coming from a country like Russia, Japan or similar?

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One time when I wrote a program in C++, I made some error in how I opened/wrote to files, and it created a file with random characters and they could not be deleted (not by Windows anyway; DOS got them off with no trouble).
Maybe a similar problem (or probably not).

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Bond, Power, CA, The Force, Saber, IC, Epic, Oily Mexican Food, BG, /\ |> /\ /\/\, Sentences.
Now you know where I've been.

I notice the directory names all have 3 letter extensions...


I dont think this is a virus, it looks more like a program thats screwed up. Is it still happening, or has it stopped?

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That's what seems to happen to corrupted files. That happened to me once, and eventually my whole system became corrupt and I had no other choice but to reformat.

Could be something else though.. For your sake, I hope so.

Did you happen to download them off of a foriegn language site?

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I think its stopped.

I've been thinking about it all day, and I've narrowed it down to something that happened recently. Although i'm not ruling out a virus attack, I'm willing to give credibility to this theory:

my foot accidentally tripped the surge protector on the floor and shut off the computer, which came back on almost immediately.

I got a light blue scandisk screen when windows was booting again, but since it wasn't the dreaded dark blue one I let scandisk finish and all seemed to be well.

I guess not, eh?

I have a damage report, this problem took out the following programs and their directories:

Quicktime
Winmx
Adobe Premiere
Outlook Express (never use it anyway, no big deal)
Wings 3d
My Music.


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[This message has been edited by Pagewizard_YKS (edited May 11, 2004).]

Im seeing that these files are bloody huge. Did you really download a ****ing 2gb file?!?!

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nope. The file sizes are probably all screwed up and are far from accurate. Only DVD isos would be that big, and you never see those anyway.

My drive is still about 90% free, so either that or my drive is MUCH larger than documented. I doubt that, b/c i still have 8gb unpartitioned space that i'm saving for a future linux install when I have time to get around to it. My current windows partition is 152 GB

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[This message has been edited by Pagewizard_YKS (edited May 11, 2004).]

I was planning on ghosting my system so i could quickly restore in case s*** like this ever happened, but windows xp never stays pristine long enough for me to create a backup drive image.



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windows and pristine in the same sentence, that was FUNNY

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Those are language placeholders. Perhaps the files got jumped into a differen language or something. Maybe a Unicode number transfer if those filenames were all in numbers....

/end MyThoughts.exe

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More files eaten:

Macromedia Flash MX
Macromedia Authorware
Winrar

Is it reformat time, or can I fix this?




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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

/me looks his 4 month uptime. /me laughs.



...The three 'R's of win32 troubleshooting - Reboot, Reinstall, Reformat.... Yeah, go for it. Itll doubtless be easier than trying to track down the problem.

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Yeah, that *could* be it, except that all the files /and/ the directories conform to the old 8.3 standard... No, something else is going on.


Page, what did you use to download these things? Getright? DAP? IE?

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I used to believe that we must fight the future, lest change come without our consent. I was wrong. The truth is that we must embrace the future, for only with change can we remain the same.

I use flashget.




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