Datei Files

[Redboy]

At some point a while back I had 10 files show up in my root directory named Datei0, Datei1 ... Datei9.

They are all 4kb Unix executable files. Removing them does nothing, as they reappear after a while. Does anyone know where these came from? What they are doing? Which app created them? If I should worry about them? How I can get rid of them?

 

[jhu]

are they binary or text files?

 

[bousozoku]

Have you been working in German? If I remember correctly, datei is German for file.

 

[Redboy]

They are text files. I don't know if I'm divulging any info here, but here's the text from one of the files:

//4BB34EC190A613E9E0A5692AECBA7C40
STR:[01:2005.10.18 12.01::17DE3C:3:0:0:6:430009000000060708...insert long strand of letters and numbers here]
//_CheckSum
STR:1EF9829949A0
//_FormatVersion
STR:01
//_Version
STR:01

 

[Redboy]

And no - no German for me. Insert Top Secret quote here.

 

[bousozoku]

And no - no German for me. Insert Top Secret quote here.

Perhaps, your application is natively German, though, and, as good Mac OS X applications are, localised for each environment.

Definitely looks like, ummm, information stored in a file.