When in the C prompt I get this weird file called . and ..

Should I delete them?
:)

Bill

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Goldsmith" <wo...@justfamily.org>
To: "Gill Ediger" <gi...@worldnet.att.net>
Cc: <o...@texascavers.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: [ot_caving] virus???


> Gill, its harmless, thats from windows explorer for thumbnail indexes
> :)  It caches them to speed up the display of pictures in your
> folders.
>
> These will go away fi you force a list view instead of thumbnails and
> then delete the thumb.db
>
> HTH
> Charles
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Gill Ediger <gi...@worldnet.att.net>
wrote:
> > At 12:20 PM 7/31/2008, Louise Power wrote:
> >>
> >> These were announced by our State Office. Just be aware.
> >
> > Speaking of viruses: I have for some months had a file in my computer
which
> > looks suspicious but seems to do nothing. My anti-virus/security program
> > seems to think nothing of it. The file is:
> >
> >        thumbs.db
> >
> > and has placed itself in nearly every (maybe every) directory/folder in
my
> > computer. If I delete it from a directory, it comes back the next time I
> > reboot.
> >
> > Does anybody have any information on this silly file and where it came
from
> > and do I need to do anything about it?
> >
> > Huh?
> > --Ediger
> >
> >
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