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maglinders
February 4th, 2006, 11:38 AM
Spybot search and destroy found a file with a name comprising [ 5-digits/5-digits/plain-English-word ] which, of its very nature, if you know what I mean, bears no relation to anything I have visited. Aargh.

When I try to search, it says file not found.

Spybot spent a while looking through it and seemed quite happy that it was not a danger, so it will not delete it.

Any suggestions, please?

Thanks.

FastGame
February 4th, 2006, 13:57 PM
Where did S&D find this ? file, cache, cookie, log ?

maglinders
February 5th, 2006, 14:58 PM
It seems to have gone, now. Don't know where it was. Looked in cookie list - not there. Ditto temp files.
What bothers me is that it was extremely iffy (topic-wise) and I have no idea how it got on to my machine.

Curio
February 8th, 2006, 21:27 PM
The lists that are displayed by spybot S&D as it scans are what it is looking for - not necessarily what it has found. It only shows that it found something in the removal list in the main interface.