computer help

[moose11]

how do i read or convert .dat files? when i open them now it just looks like a bunch of symbols and letters

 

[pintoca]

fuck you pintocote, I knew you would click on this

 

[jnuts]

If it's a movie file, open it up with VLC (videolan)

 

[blut wump]

Make an association with your chosen executable.

 

[bullett]

.dat files (data) are meant to be called by a program, they aren't much use to be opened by another application

 

[jnuts]

.dat are also MPEG-2 movie files....

 

[Liebnitz]

I agree, you could rename them temporarily to .mpg and see if PowerDVD or another Mpeg 2 player would read them. If you have the codec any media player will read mpg-2.

 

[blut wump]

.dat was also used for video-CD files. The .dat extension basically stands for .data. It can be anything the programmer wants it to be.

Try to drag it into a movie player in case it's a movie file. Renaming it to .mpg might help if it is. Like I mentioned, though, depending on where you've found it, it could be pretty much anything.

 

[Gymgurl]

So what was it?

 

[moose11]

its from a keylogger....but it gives me the info in a dat file....i still havent been able to open it