Question re: prefetch

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by Brecki, Oct 27, 2007.

  1. Brecki

    Brecki Private E-2

    Hi there, everyone! Thanks to you all, I have been having next to NO issues with my computer for the past few months, as I actually learned from your instructions. ;) I now have a question, though. I am looking through my prefetch files for kicks and giggles, and found some that I do not recognize. I've looked on the net for these, and the only thing that I have come up with for these are that they are malware. Now, I've NOT run the programs in safe mode as it takes hours, and right now, the time is not there. I am just wondering if anyone has seen these before? If so, where can I get more information regarding these prefetchs?

    Thank you so much for your time, patience and help.
    :)
    GLB72.TMP-04F5E36D.pf
    YTB3.EXE-1BF47D59.pf
    GLJ7B.TMP-2AD959A6.pf
    GLB79.TMP-0AC44383.pf
    YCOMP_~.EXE-230570DC.pf

    Brecki
     
    Brecki, Oct 27, 2007
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  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    They are not problems. Some of them are just temporary files that occurred probably during an install of something or while running another program (possibly MS Word). YTB3 is Yahoo Toolbar and YCOMP is Yahoo Companion.
     
    chaslang, Oct 28, 2007
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  3. Brecki

    Brecki Private E-2

    Cool! Thanks for the information. Everything I found on the net regarding the *GLB*'s said it was viral. *sigh* Figured I'd ask before I jumped in and
    deleted. :wave

    Blessings!:)
     
    Brecki, Oct 28, 2007
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  4. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Not everything you read on the internet will be correct.

    However note you can delete anything you want in the prefetch folder. It will not break your system. The only down side is that you may notice a little slow down (especially in the startup of certain applications) until the Prefetch folders builds up the prefetch info for things you run. So you can be on the safe side and delete those tmp files anyway as it will not hurt you to do so. Especially since as I said, it could be from something you installed and since I don't know what you installed. It could have been malware related. You could run our cleaning procedure to be on the safe side too.
     
    chaslang, Oct 28, 2007
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  5. Brecki

    Brecki Private E-2

    Thank you for the further information. It helps me to understand a little more of what the prefetch files are for. And, since I am not sure of what the others are for, left them alone, though I did delete the yahoo stuff. :D
     
    Brecki, Oct 28, 2007
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  6. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    I would delete the others too. Odds are that you do not need them anyway. Normally only EXE files will show here.
     
    chaslang, Oct 28, 2007
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  7. Brecki

    Brecki Private E-2

    M'kay, they are deleted. Thank you. :)

    Any idea what this file is? It, too is in the prefetch...

    NTOSBOOT-B00DFAAD.pf

    rolleyes
     
    Brecki, Oct 28, 2007
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  8. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Yes that is part of your Windows OS.
     
    chaslang, Oct 28, 2007
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  9. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    By the way if you wanted to know what the NTOSBOOT.EXE file is for, this file collects your XP boot info and is necessary for the faster XP startup features to work.
     
    chaslang, Oct 28, 2007
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