ASCII smiley face directory

[K A Hall]

The system is Windows ME and has lots of problems that I will not go into here. From the Command prompt doing a dir of C: I see a smiley face directory where the windows directory should be. I am not familiar with this one. Does anyone know what this is?

[Redo40]

Sounds like time to do a virus scan, check this out McAfee (http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_99311.htm). Especially read under the Symptons heading.

[TwoRails]

Hi K A Hall,

Ya, I sounds like either a virus or just a plain old scrambled drive...

Good Luck!

TwoRails

[mkbert]

I've also seen this with a virus and HDD's with corrupted system files. I have been able to save a few with DEBUG and a clean OS install.If you want the DEBUG commands that have worked for me, email me and I'll send them to you.

[K A Hall]

Thanks everybody. I still don't know what the smiley face is, but the hard drive is trashed according to the Maxtor utilities. RMA'd it today.