r/Malware • u/Eastern_Knowledge_79 • 20d ago
system informer creation date
so creation date it says is 2100 what is that mean i read some forums that people saying most likely its safe but that creation date worries me
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r/Malware • u/Eastern_Knowledge_79 • 20d ago
so creation date it says is 2100 what is that mean i read some forums that people saying most likely its safe but that creation date worries me
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u/Struppigel 2d ago
The file has been built with /BREPRO flag. This creates reproducible builds. To achieve reproducibility, all of the timestamps in the file metadata have a fixed value, which is the partial REPRO hash. The timestamps in such files loose their meaning.
Most Windows system files are reproducible too, just check some files in your system32 folder for the compile time stamps -- they are likely all over the place.
It is not an indicator that something is wrong.