What are these files and where did they come from??!!

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"lucky" <lucky@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi everybody,
> New member and a "newbie" at that.
> To begin with have a Physical drive 160GB, partitioned into Primary(C 
> and
> 2 logical drives(I: and J . I use my I: drive to download programmes and
> my
> documents to.
> On checking my "Downloaded Programms" folder last night I found the
> following files which I have no idea of where they came from.
> 1. mss16.dll
> 3.0.0.0
> 2. mss32.dll
> 3.0.0.0
> 3. mssb16.tsk
> TSK File
> 5KB
> 4. msvcirt.dll
> 4.20.0.6164
> Microsoft(R) C++ Runtime library
> 5. msvcrt.dll
> 4.20.0.6164
> Microsoft(R) Runtime library
> 6. sh33w.32.dll
> 3.3.1.0
>
> Any ideas as to what these are/where they may have come from?
>
> Any input would be greatly appreciated and waiting in anticipation.
> Regards
> --
> littlefella

Some of these files appear to be related to WinAmp or a Scientific Word
editor. Did you recently install these? The MSVCRT files are basic
Microsoft C/C++ support library files.

Try doing Google searches on these file names.

HTH
-pk

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Yep, that folder is used to download IE plug-ins, so that'd be normal.

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Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
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"Patrick Keenan" <test@dev.null> wrote in message
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> "lucky" <lucky@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4896AA3E-1939-414D-A65B-F78F7188D205@microsoft.com...
>> Hi everybody,
>> New member and a "newbie" at that.
>> To begin with have a Physical drive 160GB, partitioned into Primary(C 
>> and
>> 2 logical drives(I: and J . I use my I: drive to download programmes and
>> my
>> documents to.
>> On checking my "Downloaded Programms" folder last night I found the
>> following files which I have no idea of where they came from.
>> 1. mss16.dll
>> 3.0.0.0
>> 2. mss32.dll
>> 3.0.0.0
>> 3. mssb16.tsk
>> TSK File
>> 5KB
>> 4. msvcirt.dll
>> 4.20.0.6164
>> Microsoft(R) C++ Runtime library
>> 5. msvcrt.dll
>> 4.20.0.6164
>> Microsoft(R) Runtime library
>> 6. sh33w.32.dll
>> 3.3.1.0
>>
>> Any ideas as to what these are/where they may have come from?
>>
>> Any input would be greatly appreciated and waiting in anticipation.
>> Regards
>> --
>> littlefella
>
> Some of these files appear to be related to WinAmp or a Scientific Word
> editor. Did you recently install these? The MSVCRT files are basic
> Microsoft C/C++ support library files.
>
> Try doing Google searches on these file names.
>
> HTH
> -pk
>
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?)

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littlefella


"lucky" wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> New member and a "newbie" at that.
> To begin with have a Physical drive 160GB, partitioned into Primary(C  and
> 2 logical drives(I: and J . I use my I: drive to download programmes and my
> documents to.
> On checking my "Downloaded Programms" folder last night I found the
> following files which I have no idea of where they came from.
> 1. mss16.dll
> 3.0.0.0
> 2. mss32.dll
> 3.0.0.0
> 3. mssb16.tsk
> TSK File
> 5KB
> 4. msvcirt.dll
> 4.20.0.6164
> Microsoft(R) C++ Runtime library
> 5. msvcrt.dll
> 4.20.0.6164
> Microsoft(R) Runtime library
> 6. sh33w.32.dll
> 3.3.1.0
>
> Any ideas as to what these are/where they may have come from?
>
> Any input would be greatly appreciated and waiting in anticipation.
> Regards
> --
> littlefella