>Hi,
>Looks like one of my old clients has some sort virus or malware that is corrupting dbf's. Can someone provide a clue as to what might be doing it? What virus.
>
>thanks in advance,
>
>Johnf

I just spoke with one of our clients that had a similar issue. In his case it was a ransomware virus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransomware) that left a txt and html file in the directory with payment instructions. These viruses will encrypt data files to render them useless unless you pay to have them decrypted. Hopefully they have a working backup (and not a backup that was overwritten with the encrypted files).