Thumb.db is a virus?

[ras]

Hi,
I had found thumb.db in my many image folders, is it a virus?, I had scanned with AVG free and the result is "No visus found". So what is the Thumb.db , that was not created by me.

 

[Zeeshan Quireshi]

no it isn't , it's the image cache that Windows XP generates .

 

[QwertyManiac]

Yeah, more details on it here.
*www.pcworld.com/article/id,13357-page,1/article.html

 

[Pathik]

its jus a temp file storing ur thumbnail imgs to display them quickly the next time u view them...

 

[anandk]

"ever wondered about the thumbs.db files ! ? "
click *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10821&highlight=thumbs.db

 

[Vishal Gupta]

U can select the option "Do not cache thumbnails" in Folder Options to not create this "thumbs.db" file...

 

[JGuru]

It's a compressed Image cache generated by Windows XP. So next time you load
the same folder, the Image thumbnails, which are already stored in 'thumbs.db'
load the Image thumbnails almost immeditely from from the file. You can disable
Windows caching thumbnails from the 'Folder Options'. If you do that ,everytime
Image thumbnails are created & it's pretty slow!!.