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Database of strange files
From: "Di Fresco Marco" <superdif () infinito it>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 01:31:44 -0700
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey, I assume that this is a F.A.Q kind of question, but I am not finding any answer (at least in the first 2 results' pages of Google). Do you know any good on-line (and better if I can download off-line for reference) database for determine if some (strange) file is legitimate or is a virus/trojan/cracked/whatever? For example: I am currently dealing with "olfsnt40.exe" that it has been showing up for 2/3 days in my "Windows Task Manager"; from the name it sound like that it has to do with Office (it is just "the name sound like" assumption) and just 2/3 days ago I played with Office 2000 and the Beta of the new version and so I am just assuming that is related to Office. But I am not sure about this assumption and it maybe be a virus/trojan/whatever and I am just leaving it working (even if, in case it is a trojan, I do not know how much it can work with two personal firewall). That is just a (real) example, but I get doubts about files very often and it would be very usefull if I have some sort of database to use to check the (supposed) purpose of the files. Than in advance. Di Fresco Marco ICQ #51985192 |--------------------------------------------------------------------- |--| | Spock (Court Martial - TOS): If I let go a hammer on a planet | having | a positive gravity, I need not see it fall to know that it | has, in | fact fallen. | |--------------------------------------------------------------------- |--| -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.2 iQA/AwUBPy9o8GGMuE6+l29WEQImAwCfTWS+5UupY6Bd0FZ1w6SZ/N3chIEAoIq7 67meoSHRHV942uCIOdoCtLMD =xRwi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current thread:
- Database of strange files Di Fresco Marco (Aug 05)
- Re: Database of strange files Gabriel Orozco (Aug 05)
- RE: Database of strange files Di Fresco Marco (Aug 06)
- Re: Database of strange files Gabriel Orozco (Aug 05)