Re: Orphan Files *.dll.txt

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"XRaySpeX" <XRaySpeX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
This is most likely spyware or malware stuff. It has nothing to do
with Windows. Install & run AdAware to clean your machine.

I do run AntiSpywares regularly.

I am talking about DELETED files, not existing files, so there is no way
they can spy on me. Anyway there is no way spyware can rely on text files
ALL
of type *.dll.txt, which in turn points back to the O/S, Windows.

I admit that your words
==================
.... all seem to contain hexadecimal Sector dumps, on my
NTFS C: drive. These are, I believe, files that have been
deleted and disconnected from the file system by deleting
their containing directories.
==================
did not mean much to me. If the files no longer exist in your
file system, why worry about them? They are not even
"orphaned" as you suggest in your Subject line - they are
just bytes floating about on your hard disk without being
connected to anything. Your disk is full of such things -
ignore them!


.



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