I found a binary file with a gibberish name in my home directory. It’s content seems to be just hex zeroes when I open it in an online binary viewer. It doesn’t have execute permissions. It seems I accidentally ran spotify --uri= around the file was created (I could not replicate).

Can I safely ignore this as some bug with a program that tried to write to a file?

  • Tetsuo@jlai.lu
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    10 months ago

    Have you checked when the file was last modified.

    If it fits the date you did the Spotify command then I wouldn’t worry much about it.

    If you still are concerned you can send the file to virustotal to be safe.

    If it’s more concerning for you for a functional reason then move the file elsewhere if nothing break you should be fine.