HT files showing up?

[LarryG]

Greetings ....

I just FTPd into one of my accounts I had not visited in a couple three weeks and noticed a couple HT files I had not put there so wanted to know if anyone knows if they are legit.

I did a search on the Forum and nothing came up so thought I would ask. Also did a GOOGLE search on it and they appear to be legit.

The tool files are gz'd ....
1) Apache-Htgroup-1.22.tar.gz
2) Apache-Htgroup-1.5.3.tar.gz

I assume POWWEB put them there for some reason. I looked thru the other directories though and saw nothing unfamiliar. Anyone have an idea?

LarryG

[alphadesk]

I have four sites and none of them have those files. Starr may can tell you more.

[LarryG]

I just checked my other 7 POWWEB sites and none of those have these files. They are showing up in the HTDOCS in the one account.

The GOOGLE search I did reveals these are used to manage Apache authentication group files and passwords which leaves me a little uneasy. The fact they are tar.gz indicates they are not in an executable state but still ... want to find out what they are doing there.

All else fails, I will blow them away as they may just be a leftover from a POWWEB maintenance but I would think they would have posted a message letting people know there would be some unaccounted for files showing up.

Thanks

[alphadesk]

If "you" did not put them there, BLOW them away.

[LarryG]

There was one instance of an .htaccess in my CGI-BIN directory in that account but it did not appear to have anything out of the ordinary ... contents of that file are:

Options ExecCGI -Indexes

No other .htaccess files anywhere else in that account.

I will delete the subject files and monitor for any re-occurrence or other "suspicious" files creeping into that account.

If anyone else has anything to add ... please do so ... will monitor this thread for a day or two.

Thanks Alphadesk!

LarryG