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Jan

WhatisThatFile | Know more about unknown files

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Many times we come across a file, which have a filename or an extension, which we do not know. We don’t know how to use it. We don’t know how to open it. And sometimes we don’t know whether opening it can harm your PC because it is a malicious file.

There are many such occasions, when you want to know more about a file. One such instance is that when you see the processes, currently running under Task manager [You can open it with Ctrl-Alt-Del]. There may sometimes be malicious scripts hidden there, which you want to know more about.

In such cases, WhatIsThatFile.com may be quite useful.

It is a mini wikipedia of filenames. You just have to type the filename in the box provided, and without needing to click anywhere, it will search for that filename in its database, and tell you the details about that filename.

It is a user driven utility. Which means you can edit the contents of this database, which becomes part of the database, if approved.

Useful Indeed.

6 Responses so far | Have Your Say!

  1. Madhur Kapoor
    January 13th, 2008 at 8:49 am #

    Great utility silki . It will be really helpful when dealing with malicious as you mentioned.

  2. Techblissonlin Dot Com
    January 13th, 2008 at 11:40 am #

    very good find…

  3. Silki
    January 13th, 2008 at 12:08 pm #

    Madhur,
    Glad that you find it useful.

  4. Silki
    January 13th, 2008 at 12:09 pm #

    Yeah Rajesh, it is very useful.

  5. Jalaj
    January 14th, 2008 at 5:45 am #

    That’s a good site. I successfully got info on a file extension that turned out to be related to MS Visio.

  6. Silki
    January 14th, 2008 at 6:22 am #

    Yeah Jalaj, Its actually useful sometimes.

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