-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, October 08, 2002, achdut wrote...
> Hi, everyone. Can someone explain to me what the signficance, if > any, is of files that appear in the Local Settings\Temp subdirectory > that are named bat*.tmp, where the "*" represents any two- to > four-character alphanumeric combination? These files appear in the > temp subdirectory only on occasion after I have downloaded e-mail. > There must be nothing in these files, since the size is "0kb". > Additonally, they only seem to appear when I have received an error > message that reads something like: "ezTrustAntivirus real-time > protection has found that C:\DOCUME~1\USER\LOCALS~1\Temp\bat4D2.tmp > was infected with HTML.MimeExploit virus and has restored the file." > Curiously, when I run a search for the infected file, it does not > appear anywhere on the hard drive. This has happened three times in > the past several days. Can I safely delete all of those .tmp files? The temp files are there so that TB can write the file locally before trying to insert into the message base. A safety precaution if you will, because I'm sure it won't do the message base any good if you download half completed mails into it ;) As for the reason the files are there, and not deleted, you gave yourself the reason. Your virus scanner reads all data being written to the drive, and as it sees the virus signature, it stops the write, this returns an error to TB! as your virus scanner returns a simple file lock message (a cheating way to stop a program from writing data), so TB! cannot write to the file, so assumes it cannot destroy it either. This would mean there is something wrong with it, so it skips onto the the next message. Yes it is safe to delete them, you may want to make sure TB! is closed when you do it, as you probably don't want to catch it half-way through writing a temp file ;) - -- Jonathan Angliss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Fingerprint: 676A 1701 665B E343 E393 B8D2 2B83 E814 F8FD 1F73 iQA/AwUBPaHSYCuD6BT4/R9zEQJtRACg6EAw093hWmX77cwOkvst3Fh03EcAnRNF Pi3RbcjfXsM9sQBJcs7EkrP9 =bMqh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
