An open community 
of Macintosh users,
for Macintosh users.

FineTunedMac Dashboard widget now available! Download Here

Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
Launcher.bundle
#48532 04/11/18 05:39 AM
Joined: Aug 2009
MG2009 Online OP
OP Online

Joined: Aug 2009
I'm stumped.

A "launcher.bundle" - looks like a small Lego block - has appeared on my desktop. I have no idea if I dragged it from a folder somewhere else OR somehow created it (???).

When I click on Get Info, nothing indicates from whence it came . . . just that it was created in November 2017 and its path is (now) on my desktop.

Any idea where this belongs? Or is it safe to trash?



Many thanks,
MG2009
Re: Launcher.bundle
MG2009 #48533 04/11/18 07:43 AM
Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 4
Offline

Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 4
A Google search for that item indicates that it could be just about anything from benign/innocuous to dangerous/malicious.
It's been suggested that one run an anti-malware app on your system to rule out the latter.
If it were me, I'd do just that and trash the item forthwith no matter what the outcome.

Re: Launcher.bundle
grelber #48543 04/12/18 04:20 PM
Joined: Aug 2009
MG2009 Online OP
OP Online

Joined: Aug 2009
Thanks. I did a little more digging and found a TEXT file inside the "Lego" icon.

The developer info was in there. Fortunately, I have only one application by that developer, so I was able to trace it back to a recent upgrade of that software.

By the looks of things (now), the "Lego" was something leftover when the newer version automatically trashed the older version during the upgrade. I moved it to the trash. Then checked to see that the new application still functions as expected. It does.

grin


Moderated by  alternaut, dkmarsh, joemikeb 

Link Copied to Clipboard
Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 7.7.4
(Release build 20200307)
Responsive Width:

PHP: 7.4.33 Page Time: 0.016s Queries: 20 (0.012s) Memory: 0.5754 MB (Peak: 0.6307 MB) Data Comp: Zlib Server Time: 2024-03-29 00:43:27 UTC
Valid HTML 5 and Valid CSS