Comment by thrdbndndn
3 years ago
I often search for weird files in my %userprofile% (there are a lot random ones) just out of curiosity, despite I know they're not malicious.
It doesn't help that if you Google any filenames, or even any semi-obscure file extensions, there would always be plenty of blogspam articles saying they're "possible virus". And oftentimes, there is no legit article to say what they really are even if you try, if they're from some relatively less popular software.
Could put the file(s) on a linux machine and run `file` on them
I expect that'll usually just give you a lot of "data" (i.e. some binary format that file doesn't recognize)