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Weird File Names
« on: October 08, 2010, 10:43:59 pm »
Alright, so I've been noticing lately that my C:\ drive contains a large number of very oddly named files, and it seems like it keeps getting more and more of them every couple of days. I am almost positive that it is not a virus (Norton would detect it if it was, and my computer is acting normally). Does anybody have any insight on what this might be? Also, I'm running Windows Vista 64 bit SP2.

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Re: Weird File Names
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2010, 10:45:38 pm »
Strange, I've had a similar occurence, but only on my flash drive.  Wonder what it is?
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Re: Weird File Names
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2010, 10:53:37 pm »
Maybe you could open them with notepad?  They could be logs or something.

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Re: Weird File Names
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2010, 11:01:28 pm »
This is weird... it looks like they were generated by wabbitemu. I opened them up in Notepad and they all began with some variation of the word "TI83", some of them referencing wabbitemu, such as in the pic below. So to anybody who knows a lot about wabbitemu- is it safe to delete these files?

Also, thanks Darl! Why didn't I think of that before?
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Re: Weird File Names
« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2010, 11:02:30 pm »
"Save State" files, maybe?
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Re: Weird File Names
« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2010, 11:03:32 pm »
No, I don't think they're save state files. I have those in the directory that I keep wabbitemu in.
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Re: Weird File Names
« Reply #6 on: October 08, 2010, 11:05:00 pm »
Those look like files moved over from WabbitEmu onto a computer. That's what the **TI83F* header means (all TI calc files have a header like that with the name of the calculator). The rest is the binary data of the files.

Maybe WabbitEmu is backing them up to the C:\ drive for some reason? Buckeye would be more qualified to answer what's going on.
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Re: Weird File Names
« Reply #7 on: October 08, 2010, 11:54:20 pm »
Quote from: tloz128 on October 08, 2010, 10:43:59 pm
Norton would detect it if it was
Not necessarly. Unless they changed, Norton has been the worst anti-virus for a while, detecting viruses after the damage is done and screwing up computers. It even had IRC exploits involving people typing "startkeylogger" in chans
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Re: Weird File Names
« Reply #8 on: October 09, 2010, 12:50:35 am »
Norton used to be the worst, true, clogging up system resources and taking all space up but in the past few years since it released Norton 360, it has improved massively and is now among the top 3 security suites. I use Norton 360 v4.0 myself and the new file insight feature is something unique. But the Norton Antivirus by itself is useless. better to have Internet SEcurity or even better get Norton 360.
And McAfee I think is the one that is now taking up lots of system resources. also very annoying when i install adobe flash player because a McAfee security scan likes to piggyback on it.

Anyway on your weird files, im not sure, some dump files that wabbitemu dumps when performing operations? maybe you changed some setting? they look like c/c++ code files where they have c files h files etc.
i don't think you should worry about it too much as long it doesn't affect the running of your comp;uter
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Re: Weird File Names
« Reply #9 on: October 09, 2010, 10:10:13 am »
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on October 08, 2010, 11:54:20 pm
Quote from: tloz128 on October 08, 2010, 10:43:59 pm
Norton would detect it if it was
Not necessarly. Unless they changed, Norton has been the worst anti-virus for a while, detecting viruses after the damage is done and screwing up computers. It even had IRC exploits involving people typing "startkeylogger" in chans
Yes, Norton does have a lot of problems. The thing about Norton 2010, though, is that it is overly cautious, to say the least. And by overly cautious I mean annoyingly cautious. I remember that for a brief while I was trying to learn how to use the win32 api (different computer- still had Norton 2010), and Norton always prevented me from running any of the programs I made, telling me that they were security threats. So, every time I compiled I had to open up Norton and tell it that the program I just made was safe. It was a pain, and actually discouraged me for a while from c and c++. Nonetheless, in this case I think I'm fine.

@jhgenius I don't believe that these are c/c++ source filles. There actually are a few that end with the file extensions .c, but when I open them up they do not look at all like c source code, and appear the same as the other files.
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Re: Weird File Names
« Reply #10 on: October 09, 2010, 10:29:58 am »
try deleting them and see what happens? By deleting them, I mean moving them to a new folder you can create and see if wabbit stays the same or not
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Re: Weird File Names
« Reply #11 on: October 09, 2010, 10:30:46 am »
alright I'll try that
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Re: Weird File Names
« Reply #12 on: October 09, 2010, 10:32:50 am »
yeah, if you can delete them without noticing a difference on wabbit, id say just trash them... but maybe put them in a archive or somewhere just incase if you do need them again?
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Re: Weird File Names
« Reply #13 on: October 09, 2010, 11:13:54 am »
One last idea before you delete them. They look exactly like .8xp files. Try renaming them .8xp and sending them back to wabbitemu. I wouldn't doubt that they are real programs.
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Re: Weird File Names
« Reply #14 on: October 09, 2010, 11:14:06 am »
They're definitely made by WabbitEmu. I don't know why there made, though. Deleting them doesn't do anything; they must be temporary files. I think before it could actually export files, the Export feature did that in early versions of WabbitEmu. You might want to ask BuckeyeDude about that.

EDIT: How recent is your Wabbit version?
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