Hi. Badboy suggested I post this in this forum. I have a folder, C:\WINDOWS, that is 4.84 gig, contains 17,220 files and 857 folders. 3.8 gig of the folder is made up of 820 files with no extensions, are called type "file", are named seemingly random 8 character alpha names (ie Akakblfd), range in size from 0 to 10,441 meg, are created on an almost daily basis, and there are up to 15 or so multiples of them of the exact same size. They are not hidden and are taking over my hard drive. The earliest one currently in the folder was created 9/06/2002, the last 11/29/2002. My system is clean per Norton Anti-virus. Can anyone 'splain this to me, and help me? Thanks. Jeff.

Start with a the trojan scan at the PC Flank website. If it is positive, then download and install one of the highly recommended antitrojan programs from that site for a free trial (Trojan Remover, Trojan Hunter, Tauscan, TDS) are all good at detecting and cleaning a trojan. What firewall do you have installed? If the answer is none, then get Sygate at that website too! Take care and all the best!

Please post back and tell us what you find. Latika

hi jeff/y, download and run BOCLEAN Immediately! all the best, murve

hello do online virus scan at panda or housecall anti virus.

i think after the trojan scan you should boot into DOS and the full scan disk ... to test your disk sectors

I downloaded TDS, now I just have to figure out how to use it. Any quickstart suggestions? Thanks. Jeff.