Airplanelog_ text files

[honkibay]

I'm using Windows11 in English, but found these Airplanelog_*.txt files in C:\Windows\ directory. I wonder what these are for and why unreadable characters are inserted in the file names???

 

[Ian]

What's inside those txt files? Do you have anything remotely to do with aircraft software on your PC? Drone software, flight planning software etc...?

It might be worth running a full antivirus scan and perhaps worth scanning with the free version of MBAM too (https://www.malwarebytes.com/mwb-download).

 

[honkibay]

Hi Ian, thanks for your kind response. See the latest screenshot showing these strange txt files which contain exactly same contents as below. I don't use any aircraft SW or drone SW at all... Nothing to do with flight things at all. Through AV scan, these files are not picked up. Still curious and concerned...



c:\Windows\Airplanelog_.txt
Airplane debug Message:Retrieve Output buffer Dec 18 2019 15:02:51
Airplane debug Message : what I want ? reply : 0x1
Airplane debug Message : report switch state value ? value = 1
=====================
c:\Windows\Airplanelog_漰맗햆￿栰맗햆￿.txt
Airplane debug Message:Retrieve Output buffer Dec 18 2019 15:02:51
Airplane debug Message : what I want ? reply : 0x1
Airplane debug Message : report switch state value ? value = 1
=====================
c:\Windows\Airplanelog_蘿몦햆￿媀怒삃￿ 度삃￿ᗂ⏐￿￿￿￿￿2.txt
Airplane debug Message:Retrieve Output buffer Dec 18 2019 15:02:51
Airplane debug Message : what I want ? reply : 0x1
Airplane debug Message : report switch state value ? value = 1

 

[Grizzly]

I have looked into that too but was not able to find a solution. One website mentioned a rootkit of some kind. There is not much out on the WWW in regard of this issue.
If you delete those file, do they reappear?? That would indicate that a program running on your pc creates those files.
BTW: those hyroglyphs are actually chinese but Google was not able to translate them.

 

[0maboy]

My Dell M6700 creates these files, when I use the Airplane Mode Switch.

 

[nimanouri]

Have you find what to do, the same exact situation I have here. when I use the Airplane Mode Switch the files add to the windows folder(Fn Key+ F2). I have reinstalled the dell airoplan switch driver with no help on this situation.

 

[nimanouri]

Can you track what app creats that text files?