Please ------ Advise

adrian48

First an apology ------ I am VERY new to computers. At age 47 in October I finally grew a pair ----- I BOUGHT MY FIRST COMPUTER!!!! SO ---- IF my first post is A MESS I hope you all can excuse me.

The MAIN question IS ------- CAN I SAFELY DELETE THE FILES BELOW???

When I first got Bitdefender, as is normal for a new AV program, I did a full system scan. The scan turned up 4546 password protected "items"!!! (a SMALL sample of which is BELOW) Why these would be PASSWORD PROTECTED is something of a mystery to me. I PASSWORD PROTECT NOTHING!!!! So ...... with REAL TIME PROTECTION ON I went through them trying to open them. MIXED results. I think it was with Word that I did get a response. But, Bitdefender DID NOT do anything. Upon closer examination I found the files to be TVT files. I figured that I should FIND SOMETHING that opens TVT files. It turns out that they are "RealPlayer connected" files. I have RealPlayer on my machine ------ I tried to open them with RealPlayer ----- NOTHING.

SO ..... Is there another way to open these files? Do I need to open them? Can I not JUST DELETE THEM? I have MOVED THEM to the recycle bin. Even in my LIMITED experience with computers I have found that THE COMPUTER WILL WARN YOU if you are about to DELETE SOMETHING NEEDED BY THE COMPUTER. When I moved them to the recycle bin there was no such warning!!

Also, I understand that these files pose NO THREAT to my system and I could just exclude them from future scans. But, they ARE TAKING UP SPACE. When I was looking through the files I found that one folder might have only 2 items in it, while another might have a few hundred.

I hope all this makes sense to you guys. I await your advise.

Adrian.

C:\SWTOOLS\APPS\rnr\Z503ZAB1311AR00.TVT=]LP.CAB Password-Protected No action was possible

C:\SWTOOLS\APPS\rnr\Z503ZAB1311AR00.TVT=]preboot/pdalang.txt Password-Protected No action was possible

C:\SWTOOLS\APPS\rnr\Z503ZAB1311BR00.TVT=]LP.CAB Password-Protected No action was possible

C:\SWTOOLS\APPS\rnr\Z503ZAB1311BR00.TVT=]preboot/pdalang.txt Password-Protected No action was possible

C:\SWTOOLS\APPS\rnr\Z503ZAB1311CZ00.TVT=]LP.CAB Password-Protected No action was possible

C:\SWTOOLS\APPS\rnr\Z503ZAB1311CZ00.TVT=]preboot/pdalang.txt Password-Protected No action was possible

C:\SWTOOLS\APPS\rnr\Z503ZAB1311DK00.TVT=]LP.CAB Password-Protected No action was possible

C:\SWTOOLS\APPS\rnr\Z503ZAB1311DK00.TVT=]preboot/pdalang.txt Password-Protected No action was possible

C:\SWTOOLS\APPS\rnr\Z503ZAB1311FI00.TVT=]LP.CAB Password-Protected No action was possible

C:\SWTOOLS\APPS\rnr\Z503ZAB1311FI00.TVT=]preboot/pdalang.txt Password-Protected No action was possible

C:\SWTOOLS\APPS\rnr\Z503ZAB1311FR00.TVT=]LP.CAB Password-Protected No action was possible

C:\SWTOOLS\APPS\rnr\Z503ZAB1311FR00.TVT=]preboot/pdalang.txt Password-Protected No action was possible

C:\SWTOOLS\APPS\rnr\Z503ZAB1311GK00.TVT=]LP.CAB Password-Protected No action was possible

C:\SWTOOLS\APPS\rnr\Z503ZAB1311GK00.TVT=]preboot/pdalang.txt Password-Protected No action was possible

C:\SWTOOLS\APPS\rnr\Z503ZAB1311GR00.TVT=]LP.CAB Password-Protected No action was possible

C:\SWTOOLS\APPS\rnr\Z503ZAB1311GR00.TVT=]preboot/pdalang.txt Password-Protected No action was possible

C:\SWTOOLS\APPS\rnr\Z503ZAB1311HB00.TVT=]LP.CAB Password-Protected No action was possible

C:\SWTOOLS\APPS\rnr\Z503ZAB1311HB00.TVT=]preboot/pdalang.txt Password-Protected No action was possible

C:\SWTOOLS\APPS\rnr\Z503ZAB1311HK00.TVT=]LP.CAB Password-Protected No action was possible

C:\SWTOOLS\APPS\rnr\Z503ZAB1311HK00.TVT=]preboot/ime/Windows/IME/IMETC10/DICTS/IMTCCJ.IMD Password-Protected No action was possible

C:\SWTOOLS\APPS\rnr\Z503ZAB1311HK00.TVT=]preboot/ime/Windows/IME/IMETC10/DICTS/IMTCL.IMD Password-Protected No action was possible

C:\SWTOOLS\APPS\rnr\Z503ZAB1311HK00.TVT=]preboot/ime/Windows/IME/IMETC10/DICTS/IMTCPH.IMD Password-Protected No action was possible

C:\SWTOOLS\APPS\rnr\Z503ZAB1311HK00.TVT=]preboot/ime/Windows/IME/IMETC10/DICTS/IMTCS.IMD Password-Protected No action was possible

C:\SWTOOLS\APPS\rnr\Z503ZAB1311HK00.TVT=]preboot/ime/Windows/System32/CTFMON.EXE Password-Protected No action was possible

C:\SWTOOLS\APPS\rnr\Z503ZAB1311HK00.TVT=]preboot/ime/Windows/System32/IME/IMEReg.CMD

AndreiASM

Password protected files ar especially archives encrypted/protected with a password, or, files on which BD doesn`t have acces. Normally, you shouldn`t worry about them, as far as I can see, they are all located in a TVT file, and they shouldn`t represent malware. Anyway, just to make sure, you could place suspect files in a separate archive, protected with the password infected, and upload it in a new post.

Regards.