Hi 8 users.
This morning I had to print and fax a document at my office. Using my laptop at home, I plugged in an old USB drive that I haven't used in three years, scanned it with McAfee, ultimately quarantining a single low-risk trojan. I wasn't very concerned and went about my business. The laptop has some shortcuts to Notepad files on the desktop. Yesterday and this morning, none of those files displayed their file extensions. But when I got home from work this evening and restarted the laptop, I noticed there was a collection of three .db files on the desktop that I didn't move there, and all the Notepad files had their file extensions (.txt) displayed.
Huh?
I went about hiding the file extensions in File Explorer>View>Uncheck Show File Extensions because there's no reason for me to have to see them. But I'm really confused how this happened? Where did the database files come from and why were all the file extensions displayed?
Any ideas? I searched for old threads, and can't seem to find mention of it. I'm not worried, just confused and really want to know what happened.
Thanks.
Chris
This morning I had to print and fax a document at my office. Using my laptop at home, I plugged in an old USB drive that I haven't used in three years, scanned it with McAfee, ultimately quarantining a single low-risk trojan. I wasn't very concerned and went about my business. The laptop has some shortcuts to Notepad files on the desktop. Yesterday and this morning, none of those files displayed their file extensions. But when I got home from work this evening and restarted the laptop, I noticed there was a collection of three .db files on the desktop that I didn't move there, and all the Notepad files had their file extensions (.txt) displayed.
Huh?
I went about hiding the file extensions in File Explorer>View>Uncheck Show File Extensions because there's no reason for me to have to see them. But I'm really confused how this happened? Where did the database files come from and why were all the file extensions displayed?
Any ideas? I searched for old threads, and can't seem to find mention of it. I'm not worried, just confused and really want to know what happened.
Thanks.
Chris
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1