~$ (1K) version & .tmp file appear upon opening documents

[Guest]

??? Upon opening any document, a ~$ (1K) version of the document appears in
the folder menu. When a document is saved, the document and a ~WRL3436.tmp
file appear in the folder menu. When the original document is closed the ~$
and temporary file also disappear. This just started happening a few days
ago. I have WinXP Student P4 with Word 2007. Is my PC infected or is this a
program error? How can this be corrected or should it be left alone? Could
this be caused by a recent automatic update installed? Has anyone else had
this problem? Please help.

 

[Cajunswabbie]

??? Upon opening any document, a ~$ (1K) version of the document appears
in
the folder menu. When a document is saved, the document and a ~WRL3436.tmp
file appear in the folder menu. When the original document is closed the
~$
and temporary file also disappear. This just started happening a few days
ago. I have WinXP Student P4 with Word 2007. Is my PC infected or is this
a
program error? How can this be corrected or should it be left alone? Could
this be caused by a recent automatic update installed? Has anyone else had
this problem? Please help.

Standard procedures for Word - I believe. My Word 2000 does it all the
time.