Posted by Saul Levy on 11/10/06 18:15

I doubt it was WinMX.

Saul Levy


On 10 Nov 2006 00:58:18 -0800, "president731@yahoo.com"
<president731@yahoo.com> wrote:

>I've got a strange prob on my win98se machine, and I'm not sure if
>Winmx 3.31 caused it. I download files to my e:\incoming\ folder, where
>I keep them until I've completed download and virus checked them. I
>then move them over to this drive's d: partition for future use and
>storage.
>
>I had a couple videos I wanted to complete, so I fired up winmx. When I
>checked my transfers, they were missing, so I checked e:\incoming\ to
>make sure it didn't somehow get deleted. The correct number of files
>were present, but their names had all been changed to funky names. I
>immediately fired up my Avg Plus Firewall and did a scan on the folder,
>but it found nothing. I then ran a Scandisk on this drive, and was told
>that one fat table backup was corrupted, then I was told that a process
>had written to the drive during the Scandisk scan, so Scandisk must be
>restarted. I then checked my e: drive, and all the folders, including
>my incoming folder, had their names changed. I then discovered that
>both my e: and d: drives were given weird volume names (neither had any
>until this happened), and when I opened that drive, it too had the same
>problem. A virus check on my entire machine came up perfectly clean.
>
>Now I know this problem didn't start until after I fired up Winmx,
>because I'd been in e:\incoming\ just a few seconds before launching
>Winmx, and everything was correct. What has Winmx done to my drive, and
>how do I fix it, if possible? Thanks for any help.

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