pixel 550 folder?

[rpc9943]

now i got pixel550 folders showing up upon t2 open... wtf

ROnC

[braj]

Sounds like a good name for a band.

[djsubject]

wtf indeed?

pixel550 is?

SUbZ

[rpc9943]

a folder that pops up where my t2 icon is. wtf.

RonC

[djsubject]

a folder that pops up where my t2 icon is. wtf.

RonC

do you mean a folder icon where your T2 icon used to be?


if yes then that would be down to windows or the user renaming the file (or its directory) or deleating it?

[P.T.]

One of those pixel550 folders showed up on my desktop one day, not in place of anything, but just appeared. I don't know what it is related to so I just leave it there. It seems to be keyboard characters.

[husker]

Sounds like spyware to me... do a google on pixel.550

[husker]

Actually a plain 'ole nasty virus...

http://www.datsec.de/Encyclopedia/file/p/pixel.htm

[P.T.]

This isn't pixel.550, or pixelself.550.

It is a folder on the desktop that is named pixel550. No dot after the word "pixel".
Inside the folder is a notepad named MIDIControllers.dat.

The notepad contains a few black squares and the characters from a computer keyboard.

[rpc9943]

doesnt sound like a virus to me

ROnC

[valley]

really? It does to me.

[braj]

Inside the folder is a notepad named MIDIControllers.dat.

That would be pretty odd for a virus, I guess that could be the infected file?

[Beno]

So what plug-in did you just add to your system. Something had to change recently to make this start apearing.
Ben

[rpc9943]

it happens often. It's nothing recent.

RonC

[braj]

Virus-scans etc don't find anything?