Emulous
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Odd document corruption issue just started out of the blue
Hi All,
I run a network with a few servers on it and we've recently experienced some odd "corruption issues". On one of our Servers within a file share that users access often we have a customers folder where users keep Word docs of Quotes for customers. There are folders within it that are named by customer. 2 days ago, all of the Word files inside of folders of all of the customers from A through the beginning of the Bs maybe Be...... show the Word File Conversion window and ask for what type of encoding you want. Everything after the BE's seems fine. I have been chasing the problem and cannot figure out why.
Interestingly enough, yesterday, quite a few Word Docs on a DIFFERENT Server are now doing the same exact thing. I have attached the screenshot of the error message. Any help or guidance would be completely appreciated. Thank you.
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I run a network with a few servers on it and we've recently experienced some odd "corruption issues". On one of our Servers within a file share that users access often we have a customers folder where users keep Word docs of Quotes for customers. There are folders within it that are named by customer. 2 days ago, all of the Word files inside of folders of all of the customers from A through the beginning of the Bs maybe Be...... show the Word File Conversion window and ask for what type of encoding you want. Everything after the BE's seems fine. I have been chasing the problem and cannot figure out why.
Interestingly enough, yesterday, quite a few Word Docs on a DIFFERENT Server are now doing the same exact thing. I have attached the screenshot of the error message. Any help or guidance would be completely appreciated. Thank you.
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More likely, it is on a client PC, possibly one that got disconnected before it got past damaging files whose name began with A or B.
I'm not the right person to ask if there are tools that can scan across a network, but I'll add a Malware/Virus TA to the question so those people will see it too.
I'm not the right person to ask if there are tools that can scan across a network, but I'll add a Malware/Virus TA to the question so those people will see it too.
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Thank you.
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At least put me on the right path.
Emulous,
I don't believe the question is answered yet, so I reopened it (in my capacity as Topic Advisor).
If you found virus/malware infection on one or more client computers, then the question could be closed satisfactorily. Likewise, if you found some other explanation for the problem.
Until you are able to conclusively identify the source of the problem, please keep the question open. Doing so will give the Malware/Virus Experts a chance to weigh in, and will make this thread more useful in the Experts-Exchange database.
Brad
I don't believe the question is answered yet, so I reopened it (in my capacity as Topic Advisor).
If you found virus/malware infection on one or more client computers, then the question could be closed satisfactorily. Likewise, if you found some other explanation for the problem.
Until you are able to conclusively identify the source of the problem, please keep the question open. Doing so will give the Malware/Virus Experts a chance to weigh in, and will make this thread more useful in the Experts-Exchange database.
Brad
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