odd file

[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 8:37 AM Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users <
ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 08:17:18 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:08:10 +0200, Gary J. Kirkpatrick wrote:
> >>I emptied the trash
>
> >>I can no longer see either file in the trash.
> >
> >Did you delete the files and you just want to inform us, that no new
> >files are moved to the trash folder or did they disappear
> >automatically?
>
> My apologies, so you deleted the files and no new files were moved to
> the trash folder.
>
> I suspect "refresh" the "d" in "refreshd6f4..." probably already is a
> hex number and not a "d" for "daemon", is not caused by an attack, it
> more likely is something related to your environment.
>
> Consider to not continue using an opaque bloated environment, such as
> e.g. GNOME and to migrate to a lightweight transparent environment. IMO
> it's pointless, way to time consuming, to find out what is done by
> opaque bloatware and what not. However, it's less likely that it's
> something malicious and more likely that the files are temporarily
> files, related to some data base refresh, possibly even just related to
> the trash folder's content.
>
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Thanks for the info.  I'd never seen it before.  I searched for it online,
with no resulting hits.

garyk
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