- Spyware or a benign virus on my PC ?
- Posted by Brad Roberts on June 29th, 2003
Daily I get a series of bitmap files appearing in my C:\Windows\temp
directory. They have names like jeep.bmp, pirates.bmp, and beyonce.bmp.
I routinely clean out the directory, but the files reappear. Can anyone
tell me what might be going on on my PC, and how I can stop it ?
- Posted by Rahul Popli on July 3rd, 2003
Hello Brad,
I discovered on my machine that this happens whenever I logon to
yahoo! messenger. If you are also using Yahoo then this will answer
your question. But why Y! does that, i have no idea. But I seriously
doubt if there is any malicious (virus like) purpose behind this 
(there better not be!)
I hope this helps.
regards,
Rahul.
Brad Roberts <brad@inetontario.com> wrote in message news:<3EFEFC08.68AFA19D@inetontario.com>...
- Posted by David W. Hodgins on July 4th, 2003
On 3 Jul 2003 15:14:29 -0700, Rahul Popli <rahul_popli@yahoo.com> wrote:
I've never used yahoo messenger. I expect it has a cache, that defaults
to %windir%\temp. Does it have options to change the location, and/or
empty it on exit?
Regards Dave Hodgins
