George,
    I've seen a very similiar problem before. It was not a virus. It would
fall more into the category of a Trojan Horse.  Have you downloaded a
program lately that didn't perform as titled?  For instance in my case the
file was said to be a graphics file organizer. It flashed a screen that said
something like "Sorting files.....please wait."  All the time it was
recursively making subdirectories until the hard drive filled up.

    I hope this helps you figure out what program caused your problem.
Think of any recently run programs.

Bill Swingle

-----Original Message-----
From: George Kaufman <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, February 22, 1998 12:45 PM
Subject: [PCSOFT] strange subdirectories corrupting my drives


>For the past month my hard drives (especiall and probably starting with
>my Syjet discs) have picked up strange subdirectories that consist of a
>very long chain of
>>>/>>/>>/>>/>>/>>/>>/>>/>>/>>/>>/>>/>>/>>/>>/>>/>>/>>/>>/>>/>>.  This
>makes searching for a file very difficult.
>Has anyone seen something like this?  Might it be a virus (I get an
>error message, "This program has performed an illegal operation and will
>be shut down.  If the problem persists, contact the program vendor,"
>when Dr. Solomon searches my hard drive?
>I'd appreciate any help I can get.  Thanks,
>
>George
>