You had a crash with OE open and running. On restart, ScanDisk ran. You
chose the option to 'save' the missing data links that it found.
Those are the .chk files. Most often occurs with database programs. OE
stores it's data just like a database program.
If you don't need the data in a .chk file, it can be deleted.
I've seen hundreds of these things before...
Larry
> I may have a problem myself. Outlook Express has been very slow lately, it
> runs fine one minute and the next it crawls. I was just exploring my C
> drive, and found all the file.chk folders that I had not seen before.
There
> were like 19 of these things, each about 4kb in size. I started viewing
them
> with notepad, and they appear to be transcripts from newsgroups I have
> visited in the past, very strange. Don't know if it's the trouble I am
> having with OE that is generating these file.chk folders or what.
> What do you guys recommend for a good firewall that doesn't cause too much
> grief for online ***, zone alarm?
> --
> Don Burnette
> D Burnette in N4
> Some people do nothing wrong.
> The problem is, they do nothing.
> And THAT is wrong.
> > > I had avoided firewalls like Black Ice and Zone Alarm because of the
> > >complications with online racing/quaking etc.
> > If you only knew! Most attacks on web servers come from exactly your
> > type of comprimised box!
> > I do not know about Black Ice but Zone Alarm will allow you in the
> > security settings to add "local computers" for online ***, you
> > should be able to add any ip address of any other computer/computers
> > you are working with and they will bypass the firewall...
> > It is PURE sucide to leave ANY computer hooked to the net unprotected!
> > Even dialup accounts are hit constantly by people looking for
> > exploitable boxes. If you only knew how many programs are running
> > around on the net, automatically looking for boxes.. finding them and
> > then emailing their findings to the perp who sent them out in the
> > first place..
> > The net is VERY insecure and much of this is due to cable modems and
> > dsl connected boxes which sit there unprotected...
> > Get a firewall. use it like your life depended on it!
> > Your life may not.. but the health of the Internet does!!!!!
> > "Shortfork"
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