A while back (I'm just now getting around to posting about this) I found files I did not create.
In my hard drive's root directory there are files with the names Us, Use, and User. It's as if someone saw the directory entry "Users" and created files by successively removing the last character. The mystery files are plain files, not directories. Each contains a plist containing a dictionary with two entries that look like this: <key>Name</key> <string>http://www.facebook.com/plugins/activity.php?site=washingtonpost.com&width=270&height=320&header=false&colorscheme=light&recommendations=true&6214.095647446811&7751.048405189067&3129.9072271212935&7536.087667103857&4291.395829059184&1395.311774685979&2083.6958242580295&443.40196531265974&9549.78644149378&3268.577605485916&397.9086992330849&732.4148458428681&4088. [...goes on with hundreds more numbers...]</string> <key>URL</key> <string>[...the same humongous URL as above...]</string> In each case there's a reference to http://www.facebook.com/plugins/activity.php. The URLs passed as parameters are different in each file. There's washingtonpost.com as above, and also slate.com and huffingtonpost.com. I found similar files in my home directory: L Li Lib Libr Libra (no Librar) And in ~/Library: C Ca Cac Cache (no Cach) Anybody know what these are? I notice HuffingtonPost and Slate.com have a "feature" where they list my Facebook friends that are somehow connected. Could this be related? If this happened via Facebook, how could Safari have gotten permission to write files in my root and home directories? --Andy _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
