diff --git a/vfs/extfs/zoo.in b/vfs/extfs/zoo.in
index 2d36ad61d..a7a195c7f 100644
--- a/vfs/extfs/zoo.in
+++ b/vfs/extfs/zoo.in
@@ -1,4 +1,14 @@
 #! /bin/sh
+#
+# Zoo file system
+#
+# Copyright ? U. N. Known
+#
+# This filesystem is _dangerous_. It used to create symlinks in filesystem
+# with zoo file, it used to happily delete file from your filesystem.
+# Now it is 'only' very ugly (it creates temporary files in ~/.mc/
+#
+
 ZOO=zoo
 
 mczoofs_list ()
@@ -32,13 +42,18 @@ mczoofs_copyout ()
 }
 
 # zoo is stupid and won't be happy when the name has no extension.
-# We have to do a small trick :)
-if echo $2 | grep '\.zoo'; then
+# We have to do a small trick :) [pretty dirty, broken hack -- pavel]
+if echo $2 | grep '\.zoo$'; then
   :
 else
-  SYMLINK=$2.zoo
+  SYMLINK=~/.mc/temporary.$2.zoo
   if test -f $SYMLINK; then
-    SYMLINK=$2.
+    SYMLINK=~/.mc/temporary.$2.
+  fi
+  if test -f $SYMLINK; then
+    echo "Ugh. I did not expect this to happen. Cleanup your ~/.mc."
+    sleep 5
+    exit 1
   fi
   ln -s $2 $SYMLINK
   trap 'rm -f $SYMLINK' 0 1 2 3 5 13 15