Why are so many .dat items showing up in my documents?

Fingers June 10, 2017 at 16:27:58

Maybe you now have it set to show hidden files. It could not hurt if you run Malwarebytes to see if they are being caused by malware. You have to be a little bit crazy to keep you from going insane.

Thank you very much. I did a scan with Malwarebytes and it removed some things. I'll see if that solves the situation. I appreciate the advice.

I have Malwarebytes running and it comes up clean. Also, I was able to find out that I don't have it set to show hidden files. But, those .dat files keep showing up everyday. Just checking to see if you might have any other ideas. Thank You

Jeff Root June 20, 2017 at 11:46:23

If you are fairly sure that you aren't somehow generating those files yourself, and don't need them (which I think is a safe bet in this case), you could delete them all and watch carefully to see when new files are created to replace them. Is it immediately after power on? A few minutes later? When you use a particular program? This should eventually reveal what program is creating them, and maybe why. Since they are in My Documents, it probably isn't Windows. -- Jeff, in Minneapolis

Thank you very much. I appreciate it. I will give that a try.

I was having the same problem!