Finally, mystery solved. I found some more stuff to disable in the Extensions Manager, the guilty one being TtestLint from Typemock.
http://www.typemock.com/test-lint Turn it off and it no longer logs to the temp file. At least I know its not malicious now. I'll have to blog about it so that doing a search for it has a chance of being found... thanks all for the help with the detective work. :) cheers, Stephen On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:52 AM, mike smith <meski...@gmail.com> wrote: > Goto security and deny all on that file, and see what complains. > > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Stephen Price > <step...@littlevoices.com>wrote: > >> Yup, Sysinternals tools are great. >> Not in the office today so will have a look at that tomorrow. >> Checked with one of the other guys and he has Resharper 6.0 installed but >> also does not have the TestQuest sil files. The mystery is killing me. hehe >> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Mark Hurd <markeh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I assume you've used ProcessMonitor or FileMonitor to determine that. >>> When you don't mind devenv crashing, try finding the handle in >>> ProcessExplorer and closing it. See if any resulting error helps tell >>> you who/what is writing to the file. >>> >>> -- >>> Regards, >>> Mark Hurd, B.Sc.(Ma.)(Hons.) >>> >>> On 12 July 2011 01:08, Stephen Price <step...@littlevoices.com> wrote: >>> > Yeah, I wondered so did a full scan. Its a work machine and it uses >>> Trend. >>> > It might be something installed as part of the image, but I doubt that >>> as I >>> > installed Visual Studio myself. >>> > Virus scan found nothing. >>> > Its got to be an add in or Visual studio itself as SysInternals is >>> showing >>> > devenv.exe as the process opening the file. I'll keep looking, its >>> > suspicious when you can't identify something like this. I might just be >>> > paranoid. Why? Who's asking? ;) >>> > >>> > thanks >>> > Stephen >>> > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Peter Maddin < >>> petermad...@iinet.net.au> >>> > wrote: >>> >> >>> >> I just checked. I don’t have a file like that. >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> Probably wrong but I checked the sil extension. Not too many Google >>> hits. >>> >> Silhouette Designer - CAD/CAM for designing clothes. Does not seem >>> you. >>> >> >>> >> Also got a hit on SmartInspect (http://www.gurock.com/smartinspect/). >>> Ever >>> >> tried that? >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> Maybe time for full virus/malware sweep. >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> Regards Peter >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: >>> ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] >>> >> On Behalf Of Stephen Price >>> >> Sent: Monday, 11 July 2011 4:33 PM >>> >> To: ozDotNet >>> >> Subject: TestQuest >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> I've got Visual Studio constantly writing to a file in my temp folder >>> >> called ..\AppData\Local\Temp\TestQuest-2011-07-11-08-28-37.sil >>> >> >>> >> I've done a search for it, no idea what it's for. I've disabled all of >>> my >>> >> plugins and addins in case its one of them, but it's still doing it. >>> my >>> >> Devenv.exe task is just sitting at 13% when its doing it and >>> everything >>> >> grinds to a halt while its doing its thing. Very annoying. I've >>> rebooted and >>> >> still no luck stopping it. >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> Anyone else actually have this file in their Temp folder? Know what it >>> >> is? >>> >> >>> >> The contents of the file is a heap of nulls, etx, eot, my machine >>> name, >>> >> with a header of SILF. >>> >> >>> >> Also some what looks like calls >>> >> to AutoMainDTE2010CodeView.get_CurrentFileNameMyMACHINENAME >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> It's cramping my style. >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> cheers, >>> >> >>> >> Stephen >>> >> >> > > > -- > Meski > > http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv > > "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, > you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills > >
