Linux/Samba file corruption?

Travail

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I have a dual-boot Win98SE and RedHat 7.2 system. All of the Windows drives (FAT32) mounted in Linux through fstab and shared through Samba.

Lately I've been finding files with the extension of "EML" scattered around my FAT32 partitions. All of them have the same name as a "real" file (and the real file is intact), but are scattered all over the hard drive. The file size on all of the EML files is either 0 or 78 KB. Most of the files haven't been accessed in a long time.

I've found about 300 EML files in the past few days, but hadn't noticed them previously. Has anyone seen this problem before?
 

Workin'

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Sounds like you are infected with the "Nimda" virus. That leaves .eml files all over the place. Or maybe a different one. But at any rate that sure sounds like a virus.