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Strange files appearing and disappearing
I was looking for some files that I did not know the name of or even the
extention. As they were supposed to be created today, I did a search for files from today and before tomorrow. The wanted files were stills from a new video editor program The result was amazing. There was 29 files in total and they were all named ffastun with extention of ffo,ffl,ffx. I did a google on them and that led nowhere so I brought out the old hexeditor. Most of the files seemed to have "Microsoft (R) Full-text index format Version 1.02 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1990-1996. All rights reserved." in the start of the file. The largest one was the D: Drive where I have all my programs that I work with daily. I have ZoneAlarm. Therein was "Generic Host for Win32 Services" and that seemingly was trusted and XL warned me that I should not tamper with the permission to access the internet - however I have cut it off in order to acertain the usefullness of having Microsoft interfere with my computer Have any of you any ideas, please? B|rge in sunny Perth, Australia |
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Hi Børge,
After digging a little, it looks like these files have been left by Microsoft Office. They're 'Find Fast' indexing files that make searching your documents quicker. They don't seem harmful. You can delete them too, but they'll just come back... in all likeliness. Daveo, UK |
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On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 09:01:01 -0700, Daveo
wrote: Hello again, Here's how to turn it off. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/199787 Daveo Thanks Daveo B|rge in sunny Perth, Australia |
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