Only a couple of strategically placed pcs have Internet access here. Those pcs from time to time suffer from congestion of the windows temp directory. Files will be created up to 30,000 before the pc slows to a halt. The files will be around 10 or 30 Kilobytes so they may accumulate to about 900 MB which won’t fill the drive but will drastically slow the pc. The files are similar to “TM2B7E37.TXT”. The name portion seems to count up in hexadecimal format. The extension changes between TXT and HTM and GIF and lots of other valid file extensions. If you view the files they always seem to have some valid info like Microsoft Internet Explorer update pages or gifs of popular web sites. Norton Antivirus with the latestvirus definitions doesn’t find anything even set to scan all files.
At first I thought one of our users was trying to install Netscape Communicator and it went haywire repeatedly expanding its files over and over again because that’s what the temp files looked like. Is anyone else out there seeing this problem? I created batch programs, which clear the temp directory upon login and boot up so I’m not getting problem calls anymore but I sure would like to know if anyone withmore time on their hands was able to determine what the cause is. The way the temp directory is filled with files in such a short amount of time is malicious at best. The computer performance is also degraded while the process is happening. Thanks, John
