Not a virus, when a linux program crashes for some reason it leaves the
core file, which in simple terms is a dump of all memory surrounding the
program. This is usefull in debugging.
When I am developing linux software I have those all over my system. Don't
worry about it and just delete it.
I hope that helps!
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Christopher Molnar
New Enland Business Services, LLC Aetna, Inc.
Hartford, CT USA Middletown, CT USA
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, David Cole wrote:
> I found a file in the root directory called core. its icon is round yellow
> with eyes and a tong sticking out. it was in the root dir. then it showed up
> on a disk I have used in linux.
>
