Many thanks, Hugh.  I think that I have gotten rid of it (for the time being) by
first using NAV (which didn't seem to help), then deleting the highest root
directory with \<<).

Hugh Vandervoort wrote:

> Hugh Vandervoort
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> I saw this on a friend's computer-we were unable to install any new
> software. I believe it was called the "Form" virus. I re-formatted his HD,
> though I don't know if that was necessary-at least it worked.
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> For the past month my hard drives have picked up strange subdirectories
> that consist of a very long chain of
> \<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<<\<< and so
> on for hundreds of repititions.  This makes searching for anything in
> these drives very difficult and time-consuming.
> I think it's a virus and at one time NAV flashed a "Word Macro Virus"
> alert, but it didn't fix it and I didn't get that warning again.
> Has anyone seen something like this?  Is be a virus or might it be
> something else?  My next step is to format my disks and all the hassle
> involved with that.  I'd appreciate any help I can get.
> Thanks, George