Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Ken Blake Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10 Subject: Re: Registry - this can't be good Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 09:39:39 -0700 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net bWz64E8SLDabLX2prLQXuwmaOmQ573ZCS2HCgK/ojuh0ewZQSG Cancel-Lock: sha1:FQWP4yQZONPyc7nAzKYYdwO+yGI= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-10:122359 On 9/20/2020 8:44 AM, Roger Mills wrote: > On 20/09/2020 16:31, s|b wrote: >> So I'm visiting my sister and as usual I take a look at her PC (Windows >> 10, all recent updates), mostly to update old software. Her C: drive was >> all clogged up, a folder (Software) that I use has miraculously >> vanished, Fortnite was installed, ... At his point, I'm happy Chrome >> isn't installed (again). >> >> Then I look at the Registry and I see this: >> >> >> That can't be good, right? Avast can't find anything. CCleaner doesn't >> show me these files and SUPERAntiSpyware and Malwarebytes don't raise an >> alarm either. >> >> What could this be? The most recent backup image (Macrium) is dated >> 2018, but I'm inclined to use it to get rid of this crap... unless >> anyone else has a better idea? >> > > I've no idea what caused it, but over-writing the whole dick from a very > old backup sounds a bit extreme. I agree. I never overwrite my whole dick. -- Ken