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No. The machine was bought new in 1995. What is unusual is that we just found one of these files which was created in 1994.

Just to give a summary, which may help -

Most all the Untitled Folders were located on backup disks I had made elsewhere (all at the same place). One was located on a backup CD in a System Folder which had no System in it, but had a Recovered Files folder where the Untitled Folder sat. There was another Untitled Folder in that backup CD as well. There was one more CD which held backup material which had an Untitled Folder inside. On the hard drive of the 8100/100 there were two: one was in a copy of a zip disk which I had to put onto the hard drive at some point. The other was nested in a sub folder of a Help folder in Acrobat Reader. There were four other Zip disks which had Untitled Folders in them. On the hard drive were several other empty Untitled Folders which were nested inside other files, and there were a couple with Untitled Folders inside of Untitled Folders. I'll occasionally make an Untitled Folder for something, but these look like randomly created folders in odd places.

At the top of a couple of the folders was an application called KPT QVWR (or something like that) which I didn't open....

pshaw.  That's not a virus, that's the porn fairy leaving you presents.

Um, a few questions.  Has there ever been anonymous FTP access to that machine?  Have there ever been any other users on that machine?  And have you ever used software that automates your back-ups?

pshaw.  That's not a virus, that's the porn fairy leaving you presents.

Um, a few questions.  Has there ever been anonymous FTP access to that machine?  Have there ever been any other users on that machine?  And have you ever used software that automates your back-ups?

Not on my home machine. However, I've traced many of these folders to backups I had made at my work, where there is anonymous ftp access, though I rarely had the need to retrieve info from the fto site. (I would take my zip disks there to make CD backups and to transfer some work between there and home). I am not aware if they automate their backups. I'm not as panicky now since I seem to have located everything and the last folder was created nearly a year ago. I don't think it's a virus anymore - I ran a current Norton anti-virus scan through it and there was a macro virus on the machine which seemed to affect MS Word docs - though the KPT QVWR app mystefies me. I'm certainly not going to open it.

I guess the next thing would be to backup files and wipe the HD.

With regard to teens in the house with access - no. We went away last summer for two weeks and had a number of people come in to take care of the cat. They're all PC people, however and I don't think any of them would have known how to do things on the Mac - and I would have thought they would rather use the flat panel iMac instead of the 8100 and it's clean (knock wood).

Thanks for the info.

Yes, that is what KPT stands for. No idea about anything else.

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