  After recasting the standard charged and uncharged brane profiles in the
harmonic gauge, we explore solutions with the same isometries where the
potentials $V = T \,e^{\gamma\,\phi}$ of ten-dimensional non-supersymmetric
strings are taken into account. Combining a detailed catalog of the possible
asymptotics with some numerical results suggests that these spherically
symmetric backgrounds terminate at singularities within finite proper
distances.
