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SHAD0Wdump

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Random Icons
« on: January 04, 2010, 06:55:31 pm »

These just popped into existence this morning directly in my C drive, I did not put them myself and I find them rather untidy. Does anyone know where they came from and why they are here? Would removing them cause any instability?

I first discovered them during the use of Avast and Spybot S&S as a routine scan.
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Re: Random Icons
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2010, 07:27:16 pm »
Dates' last edited?
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Re: Random Icons
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2010, 07:34:36 pm »
4/11/2008, all of them.
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Re: Random Icons
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2010, 10:23:24 pm »
Windows is actually surprisingly difficult to manually destabilize purposefully. I once took a fresh install of XP and deleted everything it would let me delete from the /windows folder. It recreated most of what it wanted when I reset it, and worked fine.

I'd say stuff it all into a folder and compress it. The .dlls look suspicious to me. If nothing happens after a few days, they should be safe to delete. Be sure to watch for respawns.

Disclaimer: At the behest of the side of me that is afraid of lawyers, I wish to make it clear that I am not a certified computer technician. Please do not accept my advice as certain truth. Thank you.
« Last Edit: January 04, 2010, 10:28:40 pm by Nirur Torir »
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Re: Random Icons
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2010, 03:31:55 am »
I've done a small web search, and it appears this HAS happened before.

Now that I think of it I did install torchlight and noticed after the installation that steam was doing something mildly unusual, it was trying to install direct x 9.0c(which I already had) and something else, almost certainly had something to do with these mysterious files. By the way those eulas appear to pertain to "MICROSOFT VISUAL C++ 2008 FEATURE PACK REDISTRIBUTABLE RUNTIME LIBRARIES ".

Other forums have said that removal is safe and will have no effect on the installed game or (hopefully) anything else.


And after a little more looking around it appears this is a known torchlight installation bug.
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Re: Random Icons
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2010, 08:11:31 am »
Quote from: SHAD0Wdump on January 05, 2010, 03:31:55 am
I've done a small web search, and it appears this HAS happened before.
Smartest thing to do... I usually find some other guy who had the exact similar problem I'm having (or very similar)...   You gotta love the web...
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