I found those files after d/l and playing the game earlier today. Defender did not detect them even when scanning the specific files. I've deleted everything and doing some house cleaning and we'll see what happens. I run these games on an isolated machine anyway, so nothing critical to worry about. I have since d/l the game again and those files were gone. What a difference an hour makes.
But, the real reason I came here in the first place was to ask about a counter-intuitive (at least to me) set of choices in the game. In the father/son/mom chat we are given the choices of 'confrontational response' and 'calm response'. But the responses seemed off to me so looking at the code I see "mc_conf_calm += 1" is assigned to all the 'confrontational response' options and "mc_conf_calm -=1" assigned to all the 'calm response' options. This seems backwards to me. Does anyone else have an explanation?