- Jan 7, 2018
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Lately it has become a bad programmer habit to put program files in Appdata (Discord does that as well, so does the business software in our company ... bah!). That's not what the folder is meant for. Programs should always go to "program files", Appdata is for ... Tadaa!! yes you guessed right: data. But lazy programmers who don't want to be concerned with elevated access rights (program installations and updates should require admin rights on a safe system) just put the whole thing to Appdata where any program started by the user can write to.ok, so after unzipping there was two things i found suspicious in the game folder, a desktop.ini file containing the following lines
and a folder names "Rubbish" with a "tmp" folder inside containing a file with no extension named "lock"(witch seems to be empty after opening it in notepad), so just for fun i did a quick "virus" search of this thread, witch returned a lots of results!! XD seems this game as triggered a few people's antivirus lol(mostly win defender from a quick glance)!! so just to be on the safe side i deleted both the ini and the rubbish folder before launching the game, the game still starts normally, and haven't triggered the oh so mighty defender so far!! XD i'm not a pro programmer, and never had to wrote a desktop.ini, but i do dabble in programming as a hobby, and the fact the .ini is pointing to "MEGAsync.exe" in a non-existent user folder(who's "ovist"??) is kinda suspicious to me!!!You don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.
desktop.ini is the file in which Windows stores certain folder settings, like the displayed icon or an alias name.
A lock file (usually called "~lock" or ".lock") is often used to preven multiple access to the same resources. If the software can't write the file, then it means that another instance is blocking the access, so it will abort. Usuall the file is empty (file size 0) and can be deleted at any time.
Conclusion: Most likely the person ("ovist") who created the archive had megasync installed in appdata and created the archive while megasync was running. He or she just put everything into the archive without excluding the junk files.