Purpose of the folder "cinchonism.

I never noticed this issue before. It is located in the library folder. What is its use?

Hello PhotoBug3L75,

It is part of an adware/malware program. Its purpose is to track your behavior, perhaps record keystrokes you enter, who knows. I suggest you remove it with MalwareBytes for Mac: https://www.malwarebytes.com/antimalware/mac/

Then, download and run EtreCheck to go to http://www.etrecheck.com and see if it reports no adware or unknown files. EtreCheck is perfectly safe to run, don't request your password to install and is signed with my developer Apple ID.

EtreCheck can delete the adware also, but I'm about to release an update to improve this feature. It will not erase the recent versions of adware. I don't know if MalwareBytes will remove all, but EtreCheck can tell you whether she did it or not.

WARNING: Although EtreCheck is free, there are other links on my site that could give me some form of compensation, financial or otherwise.

Tags: Mac OS & System Software

Similar Questions

  • What is the purpose of the 'Links' folder in windows Explorer?

    This is probably an easy question, but I can't seem to find the answer my own:

    What is the purpose of the links in a user profile folder, i.e., c:\users\\links

    Wait... the links folder holds the items that appear under Favorites in the Windows Explorer navigation pane?

  • What is the purpose of the Windows/C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution folder and subfolder ScanFile?

    I have a lot of folders and files in C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution (about 500 + MB), and I find the articles which the ScanFile subfolder indicate that this is due to a virus or other malicious threats.  Please can anyone provide some comments regarding that this folder is intended to do.

    Thank you

    Neal

    Hello

    The software in Windows XP Distribution folder is a system folder used to store the updates configuration information and other programs. Most of the time, you can delete the contents of the folder to free up disk space.

    The folder contains information and files needed for the installation of system updates and downloaded the software. These files are used often only once, when the program or the update in question is first installed. The folder may cause problems with the installation of the program if the data becomes damaged or corrupted.

    Analysis file subfolder contains the scanned images of the documents, pictures, etc. Whenever you scan, a new folder is created and the files that are scanned, the images are stored in this folder. You can save the images that are present in this folder and then remove it from the system.

  • What is the purpose of the 'neighbourhood' of printing file in each folder Windows Vista user?

    It does not printers or links to all printers, even if 7 printers are installed on the computer.

    Hi Casey,.

    Thanks for posting your question in the Microsoft Community Forums.

    Based on the information, you try to find the object of the 'Neighbourhood of print' file in the folder of Windows Vista users.

    'Neighbourhood' of printing stores the path to the folder containing shortcuts to printers that you have added to the computer.

    These files are called a junction. Junctions work as shortcuts, but in the case of Vista look like standard folders with an arrow. A junction is intended to reorient the programs that access to their to their equivalent of Windows Vista. Since junctions aren't really folders, it is not possible to access, and any attempt to do so will give an "Access denied" error.

    C:\Users\$user$(User Name) \AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Printer shortcuts.

    Hope the helps of information.

    Let us know if you need help with Windows related issues. We will be happy to help you.

  • How to email in the folder called "on my Mac"?

    I recently discovered that the emails were placed in "on my Mac" in the "sent" folder. I suspect that it was not sent but placed there. I've never known the purpose of this folder and wonder if that's his goal. I have here a number of emails. Can someone tell me the function of this file?

    An example is free up the storage space on the server account, by storing them in mail, on my Mac, makes it available for research, but maintains "away" from the main squares.

    Emeils should not end up there if a user moved there, or has a rule to do it automatically.

  • PC Companion and select the folder in Outlook

    I have a new Compact Z3 phone and I try to sync with Outlook Contacts and calendar using PC Companion and USB cable.  The phone runs Android 4.4.

    Outlook has only a POP (no Exchange Server) account.  Outlook has 2 contacts folders - the 'real' contacts folder I want to synchronize, and a folder "suggested contacts" which is just a cache of addresses used by Outlook to AutoFill when I create a new e-mail recently used.

    PC Companion will only synchronize the folder "suggested contacts", which is useless in the phone.  It will not sync the real contacts folder, which contains the names, telephone numbers and information email of the people, that I really want in the phone.

    Is there a way I can tell PC Companion to synchronize the correct folder?

    BTW, I emptied the contacts folder suggested and tried to delete it, but Outlook won't let me do.  Of course, this isn't the real solution anyway, as the suggested contacts folder has a legitimate purpose.

    Thin calendar synchronization.   Outlook is the 2010 version, running Windows 7.

    Thanks much for any help you can offer.

    You can do it in all versions of PC Companion. My installation is in Swedish, I had to translate the options for English, so the options that you see may be not exactly what I wrote but similar.
    But when you press start to synchronize under Contacts, it will first ask you if you perform a local sync or synchronize with Google. Select local synchronization, and after that, you should see this screen where I highlighted the parameters:

  • What is the purpose of the findstr command when the logfile to find?

    What is the purpose of the findstr command when the logfile to find?

    Hello

    Findstr is 'find the string '.

    Findstr
    http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732459 (v = ws.10) .aspx

    How to use findstr to create a the CBS.log sfcdetails.txt.

    Start - type in the search box-> find CMD in top - click right on - RUN AS ADMIN

    put the command from below (copy and paste) in this box and her and then press ENTER.

    findstr/c: "[SR]" %windir%\logs\cbs\cbs.log > sfcdetails.txt

    who creates the sfcdetails.txt file in the folder that you are in when you run it.

    So if you're in C:\Windows\System32 > then you will need to look in that folder for the file.

    How to analyze the log file entries that the Microsoft Windows Resource Checker (SFC.exe) program
    in Windows Vista
    http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/928228

    Creating sfcdetails.txt in C:\Windows\System32

    You can read the newspaper/txt files easier if you right click on Notepad or Wordpad then RUN AS ADMIN - then
    You can navigate to sfcdetails.txt (in C:\Windows\System32) or cbs.log (in C:\Windows\Logs) as needed.
    (You may need to search sfcdetails.txt if it is not created in the default folders.)

    I hope this helps.

    Rob Brown - Microsoft MVP<- profile="" -="" windows="" expert="" -="" consumer="" :="" bicycle="" -="" mark="" twain="" said="" it="">

  • The contents of the folder WAV files will not work unless the folder is on the desktop.

    Re: Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit W/sp2 installed.

    I created a new folder for Wav files and set it on my desk until I was finished downloading the files for convenience purposes. I then used them to slightly change the default sounds for different commands, events and others. Everything worked fine until I moved the folder on the desktop to another location. Files located in the folder assigned and uncorrupted but will no longer work when the event or the command is enabled. If I move the folder to the desktop everything works well again. No error or anything are reported. The files in the folder will simply not work unless the folder is on the desktop. Is that all I could do to fix this?

    Hello

    1. what happens when you play the file from another location, you receive error message?

    2 - is that happen with some .wav files or all files?

    3. did you try copied the contents of the file and save it to another location and check the number?

    Step 1: Restart the computer to boot to verify if any third-party application is causing the problem.

    Follow the steps provide in the article below to perform the clean boot. http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/929135

    Note: Make sure to restart the computer to normal startup followed step 7 in the link.

  • Is it possible to print from Windows Explorer the folder and files from one hard disk structure?

    You want to compare the folder and organization of the files of two disks.  With the help of a visual comparison takes time.  Also want to print the subfolders and files in a folder for the purposes of comparison.

    Hello

    Welcome to Microsoft Windows Vista Forums.

    You can try this:

    Create the Printdir.bat file

    To do this, follow these steps:

    1. click on start and run, type notepad, and then click OK.

    2. Paste the following text in Notepad:

    off @echo

    dir %1/-p o:gn > "% temp%\Listing".

    Start Notepad /w /p "% temp%\Listing".

    del "% temp%\Listing".

    output

    3. on the file menu, click on exit and then click Yes to save the changes.

    4. in the Save dialog box under, type the following text, and then click Save:

    %windir%\Printdir.bat

    Click on the link how to add the feature print directory for folders in Windows XP and Windows Vista: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321379

    Diana

    Microsoft Answers Support Engineer

    Visit our Microsoft answers feedback Forum and let us know what you think.

  • What is the folder "C:\C?

    I've never understood the purpose of the 'C' folder on the C: drive (should not be confused with the D partition).  It contains performance and program information newspapers and a backup folder.

    Which the backups are stored in this last folder rather than the backup folder in C: correct?  I thought that my backups were stored on my portable hard drive. Can someone straighten this confusion.

    This isn't a standard folder, so it's something that has been created on your computer.   It may have been created by chance at a given time.    Are the dates of recent files?

  • Get-file provides an account of all virtual machines in the folder structure.

    Hi all

    Tried a few searches in the community, but impossible to find exactly what I was looking for.  We have a configuration folder structure in vCenter.  We have some companies that we bought over time and we set up a folder, separate them with a top-level folder and folders nested for different types of virtual machine below, something like:

    CompanyX

    -Mail servers

    -Web servers

    -DB servers

    For the purposes of internal billing, asked me to get a count of all virtual machines for each company.  I can get the count for virtual machines directly in the "CompanyX" folder, but it does not include virtual machines in subfolders.  This is the script I used so far:

    Write-Output "VM enumeration for CompanyX VMware environment Total: $((Get-dossier 'CompanyX' |)). "(Get-VM) .count) | out-file "D:\ScriptResults\CompanyX.txt" - append

    As I said, that works very well for the virtual machines in the head in the parent folder, but it does not go down to the next layer.  Is there a way to get folder do that?

    I am a novice PowerShell/PowerCLI, so forgive me if I'm missing something obvious.

    Thank you

    Bob

    Hi Bob,

    I don't know if it was different in previous versions, but in the latest PowerCLI version 4.1 U1 if you

    Get-file "CompanyX" | Get - VM

    It will retrieve the VM in the top folder and all subfolders. You can easily check this with:

    Get-file "CompanyX" | Get - VM | Select-Object - Property Name, folder

    If you only want the virtual machine in the top folder you can use:

    Get-file "CompanyX" - NoRecursion. Get - VM

    The following script will get the VM number for all companies and write the result to a .csv file.

    $ExcludeFolders = "Discovered virtual machine","other folder to exclude"
    Get-Folder vm | Get-Folder -NoRecursion | `
    Where-Object {$ExcludeFolders -notcontains $_.Name } | `
    ForEach-Object {
      $Folder = $_
      $Report = "" | Select-Object -Property Company,"Number of VM's"
      $Report.Company = $Folder.Name
      $Report."Number of VM's" = ($Folder | Get-VM | Measure-Object).Count
      $Report
    } | Export-Csv -Path CompanyVMsCount.csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture 
    

    If there is high records of the page you want to exclude from the list you can add them to the $ExcludeFolders variable in the first line of the script. The second line of the script gets all the 'vm' top of the folders page. The third line filter unwanted records. A few lines create the output objects. And the last line written objects in a .csv file.

    I added the Measure-Object cmdlet for the ($Folder |) Get - VM | Measure - Object). Account because otherwise you will get an error if the number is 0 or 1.

    Best regards, Robert

  • Essbase users have write access to the folder F:\Hyperion

    Guys,

    I have a question concerning access to the F:\Hyperion folder. Unalterable of Essbase users need to have write/modify access to the F:\Hyperion\AnalyticServices folder.
    I know that users who is using the Regional service Console should have change access to folder F:\Hyperion where EAS Console is installed. I wonder because when we allow
    connection request for users, the .qlg files will be created in the folder of the database with the information of the users.

    Other than AnalyticServices(if needed) or AnalyticAdminServices, are there other issues that we need to provide some access to normal users (HFR)?

    Thanks in advance,
    HYPuser

    Normal users need not access to this folder. Only administrators may need to access to the file for the purpose of loading data from the server files.

    Kind regards

    John A. Booth
    http://www.metavero.com

  • I don't understand the whole with the folder 'Temp' of AA3

    So, when exactly should I or should I delete the contents of the folder temp Auditions?  Mine is currently at about 400 MB, but on a 90 GB partition.

    But I wonder when you have to erase some of all temporary files out of there.

    I do not understand what they are there for, because as I understand it they are created when you make a change to a file so that you can undo that change, if this is true, here are my questions:

    1. the temporary only important files when you are working on a session?

    Because I mean, if I make a modification in the edit mode, it creates a temporary file... but once I have completed this edition and saved re-recorded the wave making it permanent, then what's the point of the temp file?  How can I tell what temp files are associated with the destructive changes that have been saved and what makes advocated a temporary file?

    2. the temporary files created when an effect is applied in multitrack view?  If they are then:

    IF I delete temporary files bad means that the efx, I applied on certain tracks will not be there?  EFX will disappear tracks on which I applied them if I delete temporary files?

    Of course, I don't understand, but why do I have 400 + MB of temporary files after my projects were registered and closed?  What is the purpose of all these temporary files be there if all my projects are aware with regard to savings is concerned?

    any idea would be appreciated, thanks.

    Kris

    Kristoff P wrote:

    So, how do you know which .wav files temporary files are associated with?

    Basically, you have not. The naming scheme is internal, and anyway it's nowhere near as simple as that...

    If you have hearing pointed to a specific temporary folder and there is nothing left there when the program is closed, you can remove it with impunity. If the temp folder, as you pointed out is also used by other applications (which could be quite easily) then it's anyone guess what might be there. You need a large space time, mainly due to the cancellations. If you have a stereo file to 500 MB and you perform ten steps above with 10 available cancellations, it's missing 5GO, directly at the exit. If you have loads of loaded files, you need to keep those that you do not use at this moment available fast too - so more temp space went. For example, you could easily have 10 copies of the same file, or of parts of it, stored in different States in temporary files and have these intermingled with all kinds of other nonsense also. But this applies only to the current session. If you close a hearing, then all these files are useless - another session would not pick up at all - it is so absolutely safe to remove them if they were not (which they should be).

    The situation with temporary files MV is... well, it's different now because all files are streamed. But I think it always adjusts for things like unique copies of tracks/clips until they are registered, etc.. But these days, this would tend to be minimal compared with what might happen in EV.

  • Is time Machine always being backed up to the folder My Documents/Desktop now that they have been sucked into the iCloud?

    Is time Machine always being backed up to the folder My Documents/Desktop now that they have been sucked into the iCloud?

    Yes. The files are still on the computer so that they will always be saved by Time Machine.

  • Graphic of alias created for the folder is not transferred in the doc.  Everything in batteries.

    Graphic of alias created for the folder is not transferred in the doc.  Everything in batteries.  Done in PS and saved as a JPEG.  I did a lot.  not sure why it does not work now.  These are records that have elements in them and it only shows the stacks of items in the folder in the doc.

    ideas?

    control, click the icon in the Dock and have her take > folder

Maybe you are looking for

  • Garmin communicator plugin and Safari 10.0

    So just upgraded to V10.0 of Safari. Went to connect my Garmin gps and download a new cache of geocaching.com but says need new version of the Garmin Communicator plug-in. downloaded and installed. He acknowledged my GPS but I couldn't send the new c

  • How can I activate CV for safari in OS El Capitan?

    How can I activate CV for safari in OS El Capitan?

  • new version of Firefox keeps crashing with Google Mail

    If I go into Google Mail log in page that Firefox crashes every time. No problem with Internet Explorer. Also find this last version of Firefox has freezing problems when reopened after a crash.

  • What can you do on Skype 8.1 Windows laptop?

    It seems so many features you can do in older versions of Skype that you can't do in the Skype for Windows 8.1 as computer/laptop devices not being not able to quote people and do not see any other statutes with the exception of 'on-line' much to my

  • Photon: Notifying administrators of device-&gt; Admin

    Hello I can't find information in the manual of the phone on this setting. Admin Notifier is intended to be an application that allows you to control some security settings, but I can't find or configure it. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.