A funny thing happened while I was googling “patcher1048″
Posted on May 14th, 2008 by Doc Shazam
My laptop is crazy slow, so I began cleaning up the harddrive…uninstalled programs I no longer use, running CCleaner, etc.
Some of the files that were deleted had the directory string
“C:\Temp\Patcher\Patcher1048\PBSLocalizedStrings\PBSLocalization\es_ES\PBS.zdct 5.88KB”
There were hundreds of these…what the heck are they?
So I googled “patcher”, and got millions of hits.
Then I googled “patcher1048″ and got ZERO hits. That’s right, zero.
So try googling “Patcher1048″.
If I’m lucky, I’ll be the only result. I wonder how many people search for patcher1048?
Popularity: 71% [?]
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My apologies if I’m stating the obvious:
I tried a search for “patcher pbs”, which turned up a link for something called “WebMO“, computational chemistry software.
Or are you interested in train simulation games?
I think file names like this (”abcd####.xyz”, where “####” is random digits) arise because the #### sequence is assigned at install or runtime. Some viruses do this as deliberate obfuscation, but lots of legitimate applications do as well, particularly TEMP files. I’ve also seen cases, mostly viruses, where executables (.EXE, .DLL, etc,) have random alphabetical filenames (e.g., “QGTYX.DLL”)
What intrigues me is that there are so few hits for the “zdct” file extension, none of which immediately strike me as relevant.
Wow, thanks for the insight. Glad to see that some computer geeks read Doc Shazam as well. LOL. I’ve never used computational chemistry software on this laptop (that I’m aware of), but I do install and unistall a lot of stuff to try it out.
I’ve never done train simulation games either, but it sounds like it could be fun!
Try searching “Patcher StagingArea”, both part of the file paths. You end up with a clue… Adobe Patcher.
After that search for “Adobe Patcher Temp” to make sure those files are left-overs by the Adobe update application.
Damn careless if you ask me; leaving your customers’ PC with hundreds of MB’s of crap.
Heh, I just googled “patcher1048″ and you WERE the only result that came up. Freaky.
\AppData\Local\Temp\Patcher\Patcher3800\StagingArea\2273 212 bytes
AppData\Local\Temp\Patcher\Patcher4232\PBSLocalizedStrings\PBSLocalization\cs_CZ\PBS.zdct 5,88KB
Strings like this?
Now i use CCleaner and got hundred like this…I have CS3..is this adobe soft?