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re: Question about 'Stop Windows from saving the thumbnail cache (THUMBS.DB)'
Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 4:24 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by borg
(2664 messages posted)
A thumbs.db file contains a small image and some characteristics (file name, length,
date) for each image file in the directory. This is not active content; thumbs.db
files cannot be infected. A spyware scanner may consider them a privacy threat because
these files could keep miniature versions of image files you delete. I don't consider
them dangerous, they're just annoying, especially if you try to move or remove a
folder containing images.
On Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 12:42 pm, Robert Van Winkle wrote:
>thanks borg...who would have thunk that such an annoying problem would have such
>a simple solution...thanks a bunch, you saved me from explaining to my girlfriend
>why i threw the computer out of our 3rd storey window...my only problem now is that,
>while i have found the files that are supposedly the problem, i've scanned them
mulitple
>times with spybot, counterspy,and avg, and they say the files are clean, so why
does
>someone else's counterspy tell them the files are infected?
>
>cheers,
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>- rvw
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