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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

So I normally clear up storage every once in a while, let's say about every four months. I noticed this a while ago, and didn't think much of it. But I was wondering if anyone knew of what this meant, or if this is actually "Malware".

I know whenever I delete a program, using dnf remove program-name, and remove the following folder in local/apps or.config, and this will delete it to save some space. As I'm not using said program for now.

I have never seen this before, and was wondering if anyone would care to help me describe this for me.

My best guess is part of Wireshark, as I remember installing it once, but who knows, maybe It's something I shouldn't have. I know what I'm sort of doing on Linux, and if this is network related, I probably don't care.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

.db is usually short for "database". I'd suspect this file is part of an anti-virus tool or similar. ~~Where did you find the file?~~ Edit: phishingurl indicates that it's part of some URL checking functionality of a browser. Not sure which browser puts that straight into .local/share though. Might be a KDE thing.

Edit 2: Qkall's answer says it's KMail.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Funny name for a spamfilter db?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago (1 children)

they should call it Definitely_notMalware.db for safety

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Nah clickhereforfreededitatedwham.db

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I guess it's an appropriate name if the file collects the URLs of sites that trick you into installing malware.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Alright, yeah, I'm using KDE. I don't recall downloading anything, like clam AV, ever.

I knew that .db stood for Database.

Likewise, I guess this could be, like you said, some sort of program I previously installed that checked for a list of URLs that are malware. Again, I have never installed any program like these, and if I did, I would probably delete it after a minute of checking it out lol.