weird folder with ms printer drivers in my home folder

[Derek Broughton]

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? Do you perchance have WINE? Run any strange programs recently?
> 
> And you haven't done anything with printers recently, have you?

A virus to install printer drivers would be pretty odd, but then they 
probably wouldn't actually _be_ drivers.  However, if you install network 
printers on Samba networks, the drivers have to be stored somewhere...
-- 
derek