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Joshua
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Joshua asked in Computers & InternetSoftware · 7 years ago

What are these programs?

My old computer was infected with the delta search toolbar and i had to get a new harddrive, I went to best buy and had them transfer data over to the new harddrive. Will checking to make sure everything was transfered i came across these.

Setup-deltatb.zpb

bab138.deltatb_dmn.zpb

bab138.deltatb_dmn.dat

bab098.claroico.zpb

bab149.spreg.zpb

I have no idea what these programs are.

Update:

They are all dated around the time i got infected

Update 2:

I have been using malwarebytes ( I down loaded it from their website) for the last 2 weeks and have been running full scans everyday and have yet to pick up anything. Before that i used MSE and it did pick up Adware months ago which immediately removed. So there is no harm in leaving them where they or or deleting them?

^_^ Also thank you for your quick reply, i was expecting it to take days to get a reply.

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago
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    hi

    first make a restore point on your machine so you can undo any thing your not happy with i stress MAKE a restore point NOT restore to an earlier time

    any way those files/folders are from an adware toolbar installed on your system when you installed a program before you got the new hardrive and was copied over to your new hardrive to get rid of it download these free programs 1st malwarebytes from malwarebytes.org this will clean any adware or toolbars or spyware or bots or keyloggers or rootkits etc you tube for instructions on how to set up and scan with malwarebytes when malwarbytes finds an infection it highlights it in red and will ask you to delete the bad files/folders that create the infection leaving your machine clean of infections the FREE version only runs when you open it to scan your machine so it works fine with any anti-virus program you have personally i have 3 FREE programs that i scan with so if one misses a perticular infection the others will clean it as one program cannot do every thing on its own the 3 programs are all FREE vas mentioned and they are 1 malwarebytes 2 superantispyware 3 spybotsd these will clean all infections so use malwarebytes this should clean the toolbar infection it has never failled me but if it does ever fail then use superantispyware from superantispyware from superantispyware.com or use spybotsd from www.safer-networking.org get this only from the sites i have mentioned because if you get them any where else you could have spyware or toolbars built into them the sites i have given you are from the makers of these free pruducts good luck and i hope this helps you and other yahoo members ps anthing your not sure on youtube it

    also a lot of people install software using the recommended way recommended by the people giving away thr free software this way when you install the way they told you to you end up installing stuff you do not whant like unecessery toolbars adware spyware etc when they are installed on your pc the people who gave the free program away get paid for doing it so allways do a CUSTOM install this way you can untick what you do not what ie toolbrs etc so you only end up with the program you whant

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Those look like files from Delta Search Toolbar. The ZPB files, according to file-extensions.org and solvusoft.com are backup files from ZoneAlarm, so if you wanted what it detected to be restored you can (it backs up the files in those formats and deletes the original copies).

    Those files look safe to delete since they are just backups incase you wanted the files back (for example, a false-positive).

    The .dat file is just information for the program, which are usually safe to delete (unless they are System Files (they are sometimes safe to delete), which that is not).

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