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Strange files appear in C:\temp
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From
01/05/1998 06:37:25
Cetin Basoz
Engineerica Inc.
Izmir, Turkey
 
 
To
30/04/1998 19:50:41
Paul De Niverville
Deniverville Econometric Research Ltd.
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
FoxPro 2.x
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00096191
Message ID:
00096226
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11
>Hi gang,
>
>I have a fpw2.6 executable on a number of workstations at a client site. On two of these workstations, a Win95 and WinNT, a file beginning with the characters 'PKG1.exe' appears in the C:\temp directory as the user starts up my application. The file doesn't disappear after quiting the application.
>
>The next time the application is started another a file 'PKG2.exe' appears. The next time, 'PKG3.' appears.
>
>These files keep adding to the c:\temp directory with each session of the application until the user sees that the hard drive is filling up.
>
>If I double click on this file in the c:\temp directory, Windows says if can't find the foxpro support library. The 'PKG*.exe' are about the same size as my executable file.
>
>Any ideas on how I can stop these files from appearing.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Paul de Niverville
Paul,
If it's not a virus (I don't know a virus doing it), executable should be copying itself first to temp dir. On other stations is there a temp dir or windows\temp dir (where environment var temp is set) is filled with that files ? Could it be a quirky way of controlling how many sessions are run ? If no other harm you could write a batch file to delete them after app and make a shortcut to this batch.
Cetin
Çetin Basöz

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