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Have you tried scanning your hard disk drive with the likes of scandisk? It
sounds like you may have a corrupted hard disk.

Robert Moir, Microsoft MVP
My Homepage - members.xoom.com/Robert_Moir
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Morten B�rgesen wrote in message <3jeZ1.1867$tV3.2063@news010.image.dk>...
>Lately, my PC has been going down a little to frequently, usualy with the
>message, that it misses an *.vxd file. The error is not reprodusable.
>
>I have discoveres that everytime I even restart my computer, strange files
>and directories are created in my "windows\help" directory.
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>Over an unknown period of time (I don't know when the problem started) it
>created more than 22 mb worth of trash in unexecuteble files, and empty
>directories, that I still wasn't allowed to delete.
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>After finaly through the DOS promt removing _all_ files from the directory,
>and the having the computer shut down (power out) and restarted, these
files
>had been created in the directory:
>
>Ooaa8qab.ese
>ahhswuic.8xh
>cebxkgei.qrg
>gybbwc-.cx0
>yuch4fdr.0jf
>Zs24o6gi.d3I
>
>An avp-scan came up with the followin (from report.txt):
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>   AVP32 Scan  27-10-1998  08.42.11
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>C:\Programmer\F�lles filer\Microsoft Shared\DAO\DAO3032.DLL corrupted.
>C:\Grafik\Pcsfiles\POPULAR.CAG corrupted.
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>Scan process complete.
>
>Scanned
>
>Sector Objects :          8
>Files :       1843
>Folders :        420
>Archives :          0
>Packed :         67
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>Found
>
>Viruses :          0
>Virus bodies :          0
>Disinfected :          0
>Deleted :          0
>Warnings :          0
>Suspicious :          0
>Corrupted :          2
>I/O Errors :          1
>
>Scan speed (Kb/sec) :        545
>Scan time :      08:51
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>I'm trying to close in on the problem. Could any of you wise fellows help
me
>narrow down, if I have a virus-, a software-, or a hardware problem?
>
>--
>Morten Borgesen
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