Downloaded Program File...What Is This Thing?

razzell2

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I have a Downloaded Program File entry, that has "unknown status", no creation date, and it says "none" under Last Accessed.
It does claim to be 4kb's in size.

This program file has no name, but instead, is a grouping of numbers and letters, all enclosed in parenthese..{}.

Highlighting it, and right clicking it only brings up the properties of the entry.

It cannot be deleted either from the keyboard, or from the menu...File>delete..Edit>cut.

The properties of this entry show it to be an Active X control, (with no creation date, no access date and no status. It does not appear to be damaged...it does not say that there are any damaged files associated with it).
The "codebase" has an entry that I cannot put in here because it give access to my computer, and this program, (I think.)
Using my search bar to go to that location brings me to a folder, with an apparent program that has yet to be installed.

There are 3 icons in this cab folder...a .dll icon, a configuration/notepad icon with the name "erma", and the remaining icon is an INSTALL icon.
Clicking on any of these icons brings up a command to "extract", or copy.

I do vaguely remember going to macromedia.com, (adobe.com) a couple of weeks ago, and downloading and installing the adobe flash player and the shockwave player. I seem to remember that when I first began using my new computer with the vista OS, that these needed to be updated or installed to run some webpages, flash stuff, etc.

And, I do have a couple of games on my computer, that came with the software, that are webtangent games called "polarbear", (as in the codebase info above), bowling and polarbear golf, and Ive played them both.
But Im pretty sure this was downloaded at the same time I installed the macromedia applications.

I would like to delete it. If it is a program file that needs to be run with any of my applications, my computer would ask me to install it, is that correct?
But I cannot find anyway to delete it.

What is this? Anyone know? Should I leave it alone? Should I install, or extract, the program? How do I find out what "erma" is? (I havent googled it yet).

Anyone who has encountered this same thing, or knows what the heck it is, I would be grateful for some help, some advice.

Thanks
Russell
 

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