Fidbox.dat file

My Windows\system32\drivers (XP SP2) has a file called fidbox.dat. The file
gets hit a lot during boots. What is it and can it be deleted? Thanks.

Malke
Fri Mar 28 17:49:51 PDT 2008

Davenk wrote:

> My Windows\system32\drivers (XP SP2) has a file called fidbox.dat. The
> file gets hit a lot during boots. What is it and can it be deleted?
> Thanks.

Do you have ZoneAlarm installed? I Googled "fidbox.dat" and got a couple of
hits about this on the ZoneAlarm forums. If you do have ZA installed, I
suggest you go over to their forums and take a look.

Malke
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Davenk
Sat Mar 29 07:12:00 PDT 2008

I already checked them out. They refer to the Kaspersky AV program, which I
do not have. I have tried deleting the file, but it somehow gets reallocated.

"Malke" wrote:

> Davenk wrote:
>
> > My Windows\system32\drivers (XP SP2) has a file called fidbox.dat. The
> > file gets hit a lot during boots. What is it and can it be deleted?
> > Thanks.
>
> Do you have ZoneAlarm installed? I Googled "fidbox.dat" and got a couple of
> hits about this on the ZoneAlarm forums. If you do have ZA installed, I
> suggest you go over to their forums and take a look.
>
> Malke
> --
> MS-MVP
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> Don't Panic!
>

Malke
Sat Mar 29 07:45:14 PDT 2008

Davenk wrote:

> I already checked them out. They refer to the Kaspersky AV program, which
> I do not have. I have tried deleting the file, but it somehow gets
> reallocated.

Then I'm sorry but I'm out of ideas. You've obviously already spent the same
time I did in Googling and since you know what you have installed on your
own box, I can't help you further.

Malke
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Davenk
Sat Mar 29 12:36:00 PDT 2008

Thanks anyway. Kaspersky has a fixup program, but you have to lie to it to
get it to work. Ran it and it got rid of the file.

"Malke" wrote:

> Davenk wrote:
>
> > I already checked them out. They refer to the Kaspersky AV program, which
> > I do not have. I have tried deleting the file, but it somehow gets
> > reallocated.
>
> Then I'm sorry but I'm out of ideas. You've obviously already spent the same
> time I did in Googling and since you know what you have installed on your
> own box, I can't help you further.
>
> Malke
> --
> MS-MVP
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> Don't Panic!
>