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Why is WhatsappTray trying to access a CSV file? #128

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Code-R-xplorer opened this issue Feb 18, 2022 · 4 comments
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Why is WhatsappTray trying to access a CSV file? #128

Code-R-xplorer opened this issue Feb 18, 2022 · 4 comments

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@Code-R-xplorer
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I've been using WhatsappTray for a long time now and never ran into any issues with it until now.

While it is running it tries to access a temp file located at C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp called WERD23E.tmp.csv.

I'm just wondering why it is trying to delete a Windows Error Reporting file. Is this normal?

@D4koon
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D4koon commented Feb 18, 2022

How you know it is WhatsappTray that is trying to delete that file? And no it should not...

@Code-R-xplorer
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I know it's WhatsappTray because my antivirus picks it up and blocks it and when it blocks it WhatsappTray crashes. Here's a screenshot from my antivirus. It could be a false positive but just wanted to check.

Screenshot 2022-02-18 151453

@D4koon
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D4koon commented Feb 19, 2022

Strange.
My only guess iss that the report is handled by some code that is automatically included in every visual-studio binary and WhatsappTray crashed before and now some cleanup-routine was running there???
Can you see what the csv-file contains? Is it related to WhatsappTray

WhatsappTray itself does not have any code that handles those files.
Did you download from this github-Webseit? If not the better download from here...

@Code-R-xplorer
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Finally managed to look at the file and did some more looking online. Basically, the file is like a snapshot of all running processes at the time of an app crashing and once the app has done what it needs to do it deletes the file as it's no longer needed. As WhatsappTray isn't a known application to my anti-virus it just blocks it from deleting the file. So it looks like it's a default crash handler I suppose. I've attached the file in case it is of any use to you but I don't think it's an issue with WhatsappTray more my anti-virus being a bit too protective.
WEREB1F.tmp.csv

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