Jacqueline Folwell
December 11th 03, 09:25 PM
>-----Original Message-----
>I would be grateful for any assistance. We are seeing
>automatic files being created out of Excel which we are
>not aware of ever having created. All file names have 8
>digits of alpha/numbers assigned to them and say that
they
>are a file type "file". Would anyone know how/what
causes
>Excel to automatically create these files?
>.
>These may be coming in with e-mail. I hope you are
checking and deleting them swiftly qas they very much
could be spyware, viruses or worms. Many times there is
no way to stop them. I have discovered one thing some of
this stuff comes in when you I unsubscribe from e-mail
lists so now I just delete them and ignore them rather
than unsubscribe. It seems to stop a lot of it. I do
suggest you DO NOT OPEN THOSE FILES.
>I would be grateful for any assistance. We are seeing
>automatic files being created out of Excel which we are
>not aware of ever having created. All file names have 8
>digits of alpha/numbers assigned to them and say that
they
>are a file type "file". Would anyone know how/what
causes
>Excel to automatically create these files?
>.
>These may be coming in with e-mail. I hope you are
checking and deleting them swiftly qas they very much
could be spyware, viruses or worms. Many times there is
no way to stop them. I have discovered one thing some of
this stuff comes in when you I unsubscribe from e-mail
lists so now I just delete them and ignore them rather
than unsubscribe. It seems to stop a lot of it. I do
suggest you DO NOT OPEN THOSE FILES.