weird folder with ms printer drivers in my home folder

[Vitorio Okio]

On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:24:40 -0800, Mark Traceur wrote:

>> The folder is using apparently random 30 digits number for its name. 
>> It contains 2 sub-folders: /amd64 and /i386.  Each of those in their
>> turn contains a bunch of same files: several .dll's, .cat, .gpd, and
>> .inf files.  According to a time stamp the folder is about couple of
>> months old.
>>
>> The .inf file in each mentioned above sub-folders suggests that these
>> are files for "Microsoft system driver files for XPSDrv print drivers."
> 
> A....virus? 

I do not dare to state this. A virus on Linux?.. It's easier for me to 
state "a mystery". :-)

> Do you perchance have WINE? 

Yes, I do. But the only thing I've ever used it for is to run Kaluach, a 
Jewish calendar program. I run it on my desktop with Hardy on it and 
nothing similar (I mean the mentioned MS crap) found there.

> Run any strange programs recently?

No, if I ever run anything it's usually comes from Synaptic. I'm pretty 
conservative in this regard.

> And you haven't done anything with printers recently, have you?

I printed out a page a couple of days ago and this was the first time for 
over a year that I printed anything from my laptop.