A strange undeletable file

Hello everyone!
For 2 week i have got a very strange file that showed up in my trash.
The file has the icon of a normal Alias-file. But the fider shows zero KB in the trash.
If I am going to view the file-Information it disappeares. The trash lookes empty then, but the strange file appears back when I am close the Trash´s Finder-Window.
I did several Attempts to delete the trash both ways, the quick one and the secure one. But the file allways disappears only until I close the trash. Than it is back in there again.
I tryed to move the file out of the trash but it just disappeared only to show up again in the trash as if noting happened.
The file is named like: "/////ö///"
and it is made in 1.1.1904 (very unlikly as the Information sayes.
The Disk-Administration-Tool did not show any defects or problems with my harddisk.
I have got windows XP installed with bootcamp at an extra partition.
(but within this windows I dont have configureted a internet connection.
I dont use the internet with windows)
Might Windows cause the problem)?
Thanks if anyone could help me!
(I hope you got my problem due my bad english)
Greetings, Kristian

This file is caused by a corrupt file in your Windows partition. For information and removal instructions, see MacOSXHints.com. I hope this solves your problem.

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