Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!kcG5n1GZ52o91a3Gi3s8vA.user.gioia.aioe.org.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Your Name Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Suspect folder (hex characters in name) in /Library/Application Support Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:49:35 +1200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: kcG5n1GZ52o91a3Gi3s8vA.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Unison/2.2 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Bytes: 2180 On 2021-06-10 02:56:12 +0000, gtr said: > On 2021-06-09 19:14:45 +0000, JF Mezei said: > >> Found a odd folder in /Library/Application Support. >> >> each .dat file contains gibberish (no readable text). >> Some files from 2020: >> April 30, >> May 18 >> August 25 >> >> But one from: >> May 27 2021 >> >> Any chance these would be legit (fearing some license files for Adobe >> products that are stored in non obviosu places) or are these nefarous >> and should be deleted? >> >> (I wish there were a feature like on VMS where you could set an alarm >> whenever a file is accessed so I could know when and more importantly >> which process opens to read or write such a file). There are apps like FSMonitor which will tell you when a file is created. > Get info on some of these provides no useful info? I have come to love > Houdahspot for digging through my world. > > I might look at "all files created" on Aug 25 to see if I could find a > correlation. There's a lot of strange named files and folders within the two Library folders, especially deep inside various sub-folders. You'll never find out what they belong to. You can thank MacOS X being based on Unix for that (there were strangley named files and folders even in the "Classic" MacOS System Folder, but nowhere near as many or so widespread).