Uknown program responsible for

Each time I start up a record is being kept by an unknown
program that sets up a file in my temp file and all these
files are 16KB with various identifying numbers that seem
to be randomly generated. For example there is a file now
in my temp folder that has the followng title
Perflib_Perfdata_530.dat
When I try to delete this file the resonse is that I
cannot because another program or person is using the
file. I have tried to scan with Norton anti virus but
even that has failed because Norton AV could not open the
file. I am the only user of my PC and it is running
Windows XP home operating system. Can you please help?

[Rob Schneider]

wrote:

> Each time I start up a record is being kept by an unknown
> program that sets up a file in my temp file and all these
> files are 16KB with various identifying numbers that seem
> to be randomly generated. For example there is a file now
> in my temp folder that has the followng title
> Perflib_Perfdata_530.dat
> When I try to delete this file the resonse is that I
> cannot because another program or person is using the
> file. I have tried to scan with Norton anti virus but
> even that has failed because Norton AV could not open the
> file. I am the only user of my PC and it is running
> Windows XP home operating system. Can you please help?

Searching Google for Perflib suggests this part of a Perl-based program
looking at XP performance data. Have you turned something on?

[Victor M. Font Jr.]

They are created by the SNMP service. If you disable the service they won't
be created.

> wrote in message
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> Each time I start up a record is being kept by an unknown
> program that sets up a file in my temp file and all these
> files are 16KB with various identifying numbers that seem
> to be randomly generated. For example there is a file now
> in my temp folder that has the followng title
> Perflib_Perfdata_530.dat
> When I try to delete this file the resonse is that I
> cannot because another program or person is using the
> file. I have tried to scan with Norton anti virus but
> even that has failed because Norton AV could not open the
> file. I am the only user of my PC and it is running
> Windows XP home operating system. Can you please help?