Label on external volume suddenly in chinese

I was afraid to do that because of the Unix executable file that shows up on each of the "Chinese" volumes. Can I be sure that running Verify won't activate anything? I did wonder if it was just something on the disk reverting to the original, but there are lots of folders on each of the weird volumes, all in Chinese.

Interesting. From within Disk Utility, clicking on one of the "Chinese" volumes doesn't allow me to Verify. Grayed out. If I click on a volume which still has its correct name, Verify is available. The two "Chinese" volumes are NTSF, the other two are Mac OS Journaled format. I'm using an old PPC G4, Leopard, and I set up a couple of the volumes as NTSF in anticipation of moving some iTunes stuff between this machine and a Windows box.

I know nothing of the drivers. I'm not using any third party software as far as I know - just used Disk Utility to partition a USB drive into four parts, and then formatted two of them as Journaled and two of them as NTFS. This ancient system has some advantages: I can boot off my external Firewire drive (important, as the internal drive is kaput) and it has always been able to read and write to NTFS volumes. I've been using these drives for my iTunes files and for Time Machine backups, since I hate Time Machine but feel obligated to make one of everything. The drives showed up properly on this machine from about a year ago, when I connected the drive, until now. And the Journaled partitions still show up fine.

Your name ... you aren't any relation to Aqua Buddha, are you?

No one has access .. it's a small black thing the size of a pack of cigs and it's just been under the desk unplugged because the light was annoying me. Your theory is what is worrying me, though, that I've somehow picked up a virus or worm that affects just those volumes. I didn't want to risk clicking on the executable files - it seems very bad that both affected volumes show the one file labelled "unix executable" and there isn't anything like this in the top directories of the other volumes. I may just reformat them and then let them sit around a while. I have satellite internet which means usually a fixed IP address, and maybe someone set me up the bomb.

I now feel relieved that I can forget about the stupid Time Machine which was driving me crazy anyway. I paid for my copy of Super Duper and it lets me schedule backups in a much more sensible way.