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sainsburys

macrumors regular
Original poster
Jun 12, 2012
108
0
Poland
I must admit I'm surprised what just happened on my Mac. I opened it today and realised some folder is on my desktop. Nothing strange? But I didn't created that folder.

It name was cfg and it structure was as follow:
cfg
a
mapstyle.sty
ResPack.rs
satellitestyle.sty
trafficstyle.sty
h
DVDirectory.cfg
DVHotcity.cfg
DVHotMap.cfg
DVVersion.cfg

Latest two apps I installed were f.lux downloaded from https://justgetflux.com and GitUp from http://gitup.co.

I searched for *.cfg file names in Google and found this:
https://github.com/jcccn/Baidu-Map-...apAPI.framework/Resources/mapapi.bundle/files

which looks like this files are from Baidu Map SDK for iOS.
They don't look harmful, but the question is: how this folder was created on my Desktop?

Any idea what could be wrong? I don't even want to think about malware.
 

chabig

macrumors G4
Sep 6, 2002
11,433
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Gitup is a tool for installing stuff from GitHub. The Baidu-Map files came from GitHub. Putting two and two together, I guess you downloaded something from GitHub. Just delete it if you don't want it.
 

sainsburys

macrumors regular
Original poster
Jun 12, 2012
108
0
Poland
All you said is true but I didn't opened GitUp to fetch data from GitHub. I would be aware of that fact.
I deleted files immediately after taking screenshot of files names/structure. Scratching my head "how the hell it happened"
 

chabig

macrumors G4
Sep 6, 2002
11,433
9,293
Maybe just Gremlins. Or perhaps Gitup is configured to install those files, either as a demo or as advertising.
 

sainsburys

macrumors regular
Original poster
Jun 12, 2012
108
0
Poland
I truly appreciate you want to calm me down and probably I'm panicking, nonetheless it would be good to know what/how/when it happened. I removed GitUp, downloaded it again but mysterious did not appeared.
 
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