O.K. I ran across the term TRIDATAJAVA while looking through my system files. it says its already installed. but I can't find any particular information on it other than vauge referances. someone posted a link http://troy.gc.peachnet.edu/www/wbeck/ie50/ to an earlier inquiry I'd made on the subject. But theres really no good info, just another one of those vauge referances. I ran a find file search and found it inhabits: system1st, activesetuplog.txt, system.dat, system.nso, system.nu5, system.rsc, ie.inf, iesetup.cif and a few others... I'm curious as to what its function and or purpose is. And no one seems to know. Any help?

.......what's the function and or purpose of anything in life ?? Snowpeak, don't worry about it..... You might melt !!

It's just Logging information for IE5Setup.exe Don't believe me cut & copy: http://www.8op.com/stephy/Active%20Setup%20Log.txt

this file is a java pic and animated text or on screen support file. like the screen scrolling on its owen. point don`t del. that file or get out the f-disk

Here is more since you couldn't figure it out from the first link. This is the the registry location & self definition. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{36f8ec70-c29a-11d1-b5c7-0000f8051515}] @="Dynamic HTML Data Binding for Java" "ComponentID"="TridataJava" "IsInstalled"=dword:00000001 "Locale"="en" "Version"="4,7,0,0320"

If I find strange s--- on my pc I do its properties and if it was created recently I delete its ass.If I dont know what it is I still delete its ass, my methods seem to work bc I havent had any trouble with my system yet. Let that be a lesson to all you paranoid Freakz...just DELETE the fukka and if you have a problem with one of your software progz, just reinstall it. No Dramas.

I think "no help" had the best suggestion of all. After doing a little research I found the subject to be quite interesting. Sure you can subscribe to the "just because your always paranoid, doesn't mean there always after you concept" but I was brought up in the "always ask pointed questions, and question everything" school of thought. Its not just a binding tool, its much more than that... don't believe me.. get a port watcher, and start doing extensive searches on the subject. And watch what happens.. Oh and hey booger... ever run across a file that was created say in the year 2000 and then modified in 1999? Backdating is a fun old trick... I guess theres some things people just shouldn't ask questions about. But hey... its a great one for all you conspiracy theorists, try it and see... as for me... I'm duckin out on this topic... have fun... Peace... Peak