Bill,
Glad to hear that you are the sum of all Computing, and if it doesnt happen to
you then it doesnt happen,

one of many links to the issue

What is the Tilde (~) file that appears on Desktop?
http://www.pchell.com/support/tildefile.shtml

open mouth
change feet

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Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de
spybot http://security.kolla.de
AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com
Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/ActiveScan/
Catalog of removal tools http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use
Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters

"Bill in Co." wrote in message
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| AlmostBob wrote:
| No it is not OS dependent, the bug is part of outlook express 6 and is in
| all
| version of windows using outlook express
|
| No, it is not. I use OE (and Win98SE), and I don't have it.
|
| --
| Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de
| spybot http://security.kolla.de
| AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com
| Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/ActiveScan/
| Catalog of removal tools http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/
| Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file
| http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
| links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before
| use
| Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters
|
| "ArtWilder" wrote in message
| news:RYoyc.38078$My6.27146@fed1read05...
| Do you know if this problem was fixed in later Windows versions?
|
| "Papa" wrote in message
| ...
| It is an operating system bug. Just delete it whenever it appears, or
| just
| ignore it.
|
| "rs" wrote in message
| ...
| This may not be related to Win98 only, but I keep getting a file
| called: ~
| on my desktop. It is about 1.46M large and when looked at in a text
| editor makes no sense at all. I suspect it may be some type of
| marketing
| tracking thing? I have run adware and spybot on my computer and have
| ZoneLabs with anti-virus on.
|
| Does anyone know what this is and how to get rid of it? I delete it
| and
| next time I boot it pops back up. I am running 98SE.
|
| Rick
|
|