• Random New Text Document in C listing a bunch of processes and applications - concern?
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I'm with family this Christmas and, not unexpectedly, it's 'please look at my computer and fix it!!' time. I was poking around on a couple of the machines in one household and noticed that two of them had a weird file. In C:/New Folder/ there was a New Text Document.txt that seemed to consist of a simple list of processes and applications. This file existed on two seperate computers in this household, and I can't think of any reason why it should exist. Screenshot of one of these files below. Any ideas as to whether this could be a security concern - or maybe the remnants of one? [IMG]https://www.dropbox.com/s/my3r44aa266qsa1/Capture.PNG?dl=0[/IMG][IMG]https://www.dropbox.com/s/my3r44aa266qsa1/Capture.PNg[/IMG]https://www.dropbox.com/s/my3r44aa266qsa1/Capture.PNG?dl=0
[QUOTE=Maloof?;53005847]I'm with family this Christmas and, not unexpectedly, it's 'please look at my computer and fix it!!' time. I was poking around on a couple of the machines in one household and noticed that two of them had a weird file. In C:/New Folder/ there was a New Text Document.txt that seemed to consist of a simple list of processes and applications. This file existed on two seperate computers in this household, and I can't think of any reason why it should exist. Screenshot of one of these files below. Any ideas as to whether this could be a security concern - or maybe the remnants of one? [IMG]https://www.dropbox.com/s/my3r44aa266qsa1/Capture.PNG?dl=0[/IMG][IMG]https://www.dropbox.com/s/my3r44aa266qsa1/Capture.PNg[/IMG]https://www.dropbox.com/s/my3r44aa266qsa1/Capture.PNG?dl=0[/QUOTE] Delete it, restart and see if it comes back.
I'd run [URL="http://www.gmer.net/"]Gmer[/URL] and a malware scan, because while that file could be harmless it's enumerating applications from Windows, drivers, and even the Visual Basic Compiler, and we don't know [I]why[/I].
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