Anyone have any info on settings.sxx files?

Hi everyone:
I thought I'd additionally post this inquiry on the OSX technologies forum--not finding solutions elsewhere.
I've turned up with a "settings.sxx" file on every network Mac I've turned on today. Following an equally puzzled Panther forum user's link to http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=SXX, it's supposedly a "SAS Stat Studio Executable Module". Yikes. I went to the SAS site and turned up this article: http://www.sas.com/success/dmdc.html.
What is scary here is that it looks like some sort of tracking software (more than your average cookie) that can read ANY type of file. It also keeps returning after trashing and restart. I have not loaded any new software or subscribed anywhere new online. Does Apple security or anyone else know how this all of a sudden pops up, how to irradicate it, and how to block this kind of "cookie monster" from planting in the first place??
Any info is greatly appreciated!

What's the path to these files? I have a bunch of "settings.sol" files on my PowerBook, but they're connected to the Macromedia Flash Player as they're all stored in the preferences folder for that. Perhaps the file extension changes depending on the version of the Flash player...
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first of: you can edit previous posts in a time-frame of some minutes (haven't measured it ...).
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