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Re: Strange file found
by
gwern
on 09/03/2014, 03:50:01 UTC
Hi,

I posted this elsewhere, which was probably the wrong place so sorry for double post, but..

I found a file called DdRBXW4v.exe.part in my firefox download directory which contains the log below. I should note, that this was found on a mac and that I do not have bitcoin client installed.
I hope someone here could help me understand how did this file end up on my mac.

Fortunately, I can resolve your perplexity. You have, it seems, somehow downloaded an old debug.log generated by Hal Finney during the early days of Bitcoin. See http://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/mailman/bitcoin-list/thread/da7b3ce30901101113v2ec6bf61xf018265479eb7faf%40mail.gmail.com/#msg21295694

You can verify that the debug.log he posted is the same by reading it carefully: for example, notice the string 'hal' in both debug.logs. Also, look at the lines for 'GetMyExternalIP' - it seems unlikely that both you and Hal would both have been assigned the same IP at any point!