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"Desktop icons" folder
I've got Win 7 Home Premium with Aero on a Dell laptop, and have
started doing some customizations. I have a folder on my desktop called "Desktop Icons". I remember seeing that when I first got my computer, and I thought I got rid of it, but maybe I am remembering wrong. In any event, that folder contains one entry, a file called PreConnect_1jyhry45mdgv3m55rygfk5un.exe It's a file, not a shortcut, and it's 347 KB in size. Properties shows the description as "AutoIt v3 Compiled Script". Google turns up some information on AutoIt but not on this file. The last-modified date is a week before I bought my computer. 1. Does anybody have any information about this file? 2. Is a "Desktop Icons" folder part of Windows, or can I get rid of it? It seems daft to have a folder called "Desktop Icons" *on* my desktop. That folder's not in the customizable list that I get when I right-click the desktop and select Personalize. I've searched Google for "folder named desktop icons" and "folder called desktop icons" and "desktop icons folder" but found nothing apropos. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai... |
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"Desktop icons" folder
Stan Brown wrote:
I've got Win 7 Home Premium with Aero on a Dell laptop, and have started doing some customizations. I have a folder on my desktop called "Desktop Icons". I remember seeing that when I first got my computer, and I thought I got rid of it, but maybe I am remembering wrong. In any event, that folder contains one entry, a file called PreConnect_1jyhry45mdgv3m55rygfk5un.exe It's a file, not a shortcut, and it's 347 KB in size. Properties shows the description as "AutoIt v3 Compiled Script". Google turns up some information on AutoIt but not on this file. The last-modified date is a week before I bought my computer. 1. Does anybody have any information about this file? 2. Is a "Desktop Icons" folder part of Windows, or can I get rid of it? It seems daft to have a folder called "Desktop Icons" *on* my desktop. That folder's not in the customizable list that I get when I right-click the desktop and select Personalize. I've searched Google for "folder named desktop icons" and "folder called desktop icons" and "desktop icons folder" but found nothing apropos. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoit With files like that, if the properties don't tell you anything about it, I use a hex editor to scan through the file for interesting things. You can also upload the file to virustotal.com and have it analyzed. Paul |
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"Desktop icons" folder
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:45:36 -0500, Paul wrote:
Stan Brown wrote: I've got Win 7 Home Premium with Aero on a Dell laptop, and have started doing some customizations. I have a folder on my desktop called "Desktop Icons". I remember seeing that when I first got my computer, and I thought I got rid of it, but maybe I am remembering wrong. In any event, that folder contains one entry, a file called PreConnect_1jyhry45mdgv3m55rygfk5un.exe It's a file, not a shortcut, and it's 347 KB in size. Properties shows the description as "AutoIt v3 Compiled Script". Google turns up some information on AutoIt but not on this file. The last-modified date is a week before I bought my computer. 1. Does anybody have any information about this file? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoit Thanks, but I already researched AutoIt. My question was about this file specifically, since it's an .EXE and there's no way to tell what it's for. With files like that, if the properties don't tell you anything about it, I use a hex editor to scan through the file for interesting things. You can also upload the file to virustotal.com and have it analyzed. I tried. I clicked Browse and selected the file, and it appeared in the box all right. Then I clicked Send File and nothing happened. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai... |
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"Desktop icons" folder
Stan Brown wrote:
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:45:36 -0500, Paul wrote: Stan Brown wrote: I've got Win 7 Home Premium with Aero on a Dell laptop, and have started doing some customizations. I have a folder on my desktop called "Desktop Icons". I remember seeing that when I first got my computer, and I thought I got rid of it, but maybe I am remembering wrong. In any event, that folder contains one entry, a file called PreConnect_1jyhry45mdgv3m55rygfk5un.exe It's a file, not a shortcut, and it's 347 KB in size. Properties shows the description as "AutoIt v3 Compiled Script". Google turns up some information on AutoIt but not on this file. The last-modified date is a week before I bought my computer. 1. Does anybody have any information about this file? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoit Thanks, but I already researched AutoIt. My question was about this file specifically, since it's an .EXE and there's no way to tell what it's for. With files like that, if the properties don't tell you anything about it, I use a hex editor to scan through the file for interesting things. You can also upload the file to virustotal.com and have it analyzed. I tried. I clicked Browse and selected the file, and it appeared in the box all right. Then I clicked Send File and nothing happened. I can find one example of a PreConnect here, and the malware advisor is having the owner delete it, with a regular "del" command. The Hijack This says it is packed and Autoit, and the packing step will make it harder to examine. (You probably can't search for text inside the file that way, until you unpack it. And I have trouble with that. Although I did give File Roller a try in Linux the other day, and discovered it could bust one flavor of packing. That was a surprise. I normally use 7-ZIP for burrowing into files, but 7-ZIP doesn't have unpackers for everything.) One reason for using Virustotal, is in the detailed analysis section, it may show what kind of packer is being used to compress the file. http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic345066.html Other than that, I'm not finding a lot of references to it. Not that the search engines I use are doing good wild carding any more. A site like Virustotal, could be attacked by things like botnets, they could be having server problems, or it might just be the browser you're using. I just tried Virustotal right now and got "Server error! The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request". So it looks like they're in need of some maintenance. Paul |
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