Hello,
I opened up my User folder in Vista and two .dll showed up. They are lame_enc.dll and lametritonus.dll. Are they viruses/spyware? Should I delete them?
Thanks in advance.
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What is lame_enc.dll and lametritonus.dll?
December 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments
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1 Viper // Dec 17, 2008
I'm not sure what lametritonus.dll is, but I know what lame_enc.dll is.
lame_enc.dll is the Lame MP3 Encoder file used by programs like Audacity to encode wav files into MP3 files. That is not a virus.
If you use Audacity, do not delete it.
2 Zerothis // Dec 17, 2008
harmless, probably.
lame_enc.dll and lametritonus.dll are related to the lame audio encoder.
lame is used to convert sounds into ogg, mp3 and a few other types of compressed audio files.
However, virus can go by other names. So get clamwin from clamwin.org, install it, and use it to scan these two files. And you can scan everything else on your drive also
In the future, consider using ubuntu from ubuntu.com so you do not have to worry so much about viruses and all files you find on your drive are fully documented as to what they do (if they aren't, it probably shouldn't be there)
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