What is "Perflib_Perfdata_3d0.dat"

[TwoRails]

I have the file, "Perflib_Perfdata_3d0.dat" in my temp directory and it won't delete. I Googled it and had serveral pages of hits, but none in English.

Anybody know what this is??

TIA

TR

[pam123]

Originally Posted by TwoRails I have the file, "Perflib_Perfdata_3d0.dat" in my temp directory and it won't delete. I Googled it and had serveral pages of hits, but none in English. Anybody know what this is?? TIA TR

Go for Security now : http://www.google.com/search?q=Perfl...restrict&cad=9

You've got a trojan but there's more.

[glc]

No, that's not a trojan. It's normal. Crap Cleaner can flag them for deletion on reboot if you wind up with orphaned ones.

http://www.jsifaq.com/SF/Tips/Tip.aspx?id=3343

[pam123]

False positive?

[glc]

Not even that - it's the result of a normal Windows XP function - system performance monitor.

[TwoRails]

This is quite interesting. A couple / 3 weekends ago I did some updates (ZAP, A/V) and some program installs. (Yes, I broke my own recommendation of only one at a time to make sure everything works, but I've been very pressed for time...). Right afterwards, Remote Assistance began to appear in the recently used program list shown when you hit the Start / Windows key. (See here for more on that: http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?t=165387)

Now I have System Monitor running on it's own? I clean out my Temp directory quite often, and I've not had this problem before!?!

As I mentioned in the link above, I've run the usual a/v and malware scans, CCleaner, etc., and even ran two rootkit detectors recommended by PC World. I'm clean, and the system is running just fine with no problems other than these two (if they are problems).

Any ideas? thoughts?

TIA

TR

[glc]

Every XP machine I work on has that file in temp - it's not a problem, I assure you.

[TwoRails]

Thanks for the reassurance. My curiosity still got to me though. Since it's one of those things that just showed up, I had to find out what is causing it. On a hunch, my first guess was Diskeeper Lite. I disabled it (turned off the service in msconfig) and rebooted. No file. I rebooted a couple of times, no file. Turned Diskeeper on again, and poof, the file showed back up. I did the old "rinse and repeat" with the same results each time.

I still haven't seen Remote Assistance since I turned that (back) off... I wonder if it was also turned on by Diskeeper? I'd still like to know what used it.

Also, I discovered that NetMeeting was also turned on mysteriously. It's now back off.

edit: PS: pam123, I found it interesting that you got different Google results than me. I used the quotes in my search, but when I tried that in your link, I got the same hits you did. I then went to Firefox's "home" Google page and re-tried. There I got the same 4 pages of hits I got previously. Strange one would get different results from the different start page...