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Temp folder filling up.. virus?
Name: swissxcret Date: December 28, 2007 at 04:30:07 Pacific OS: vista ultimate CPU/Ram: 1024mg Product: dell inspiron 1521
Comment:
help!!!!!!! for several days now i noticed my hard drive space decreasing severely, i googled some answers and found out that vista automatically does shadow copies of some files and that this might be my problem however it isnt. My c:/users/jandrey/appdata/local/temp folder is being filled up with thousands of little files (starting by ZAP and then a bunch of numbers ie. ZAP1A34.tmp) i have currently 35gigs of free space on my hard drive and it takes about 4 hours to complete fill it up with about 50 thousand of those files.
this is making my cpu run at close to 100% and making my system very unresponsive...
i have installed and did a full scan with AVG but nothing came up... i dont know what else to do. please help me!
THANK YOU!!!
i ran a HighJackThis and have the log at the ready in case you need it, computing.net wont let me post it unless someone asks for it...
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