"Eric" wrote in message ...
It's unlikely to be a virus because it would affect other
areas of the system instead of just that obscure Zip
program.

I would remove the program by using its uninstall feature
or Add/Remove Programs, and then reinstall it - preferably
from a new download of the program.

Eric,
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/
http://www.sharedbirthday.co.uk/

-----Original Message-----
Help Please;
I have been using Winrar 3.2 trial version to
unpack some
downloaded files and successfully for the past 8
weeks. But
suddenly both the Winrar directory and the
directory containing
all my files unpacked with Winrar have become
corrupted! The
nature of the corruption is directory names
looking like
this "@$@$ $.LC" and obviously not accessible.
Question is - is this the cause of a
virus, if so
which one. Or is it a problem with Winrar.
Thanks
.

I'm glad to hear it may not be a virus but I forgot to
mention in my origonal posting that I had this occur before,
about 3 months ago, when it corrupted about 50% of the
directories on my hard drive - including my windows directory.
I subsequently ran fdisk and did a complete reinstall. I'm
assuming it's the same cause but how come I didn't get rid
of it with fdisk?