1000's of random files

[kurtismonger]

I have found that my C & D drives have 1000's of random tiny files on them. This causes Windows Explorer to almost crawl to a halt. These files show up on the root of C & D. C had about 20,000 files which I went through a few thousand at a time and deleted.
D takes about 30 minutes to refresh on WE and says I have 300,000 objects only a few 1000 of which I actually want. WE craps out everytime I try to do anything on D.
I tried to use the command prompt, but a DIR shows only regular files and folders.

The files appear to be random and are 1-3 KB is size and do not have a modified date:
1X211A8.GPK
1XQBF470.K6S

I think I know why they showed up, I use a program to erase all empty space nightly, and I had to stop it mid-flow. However, I can't figure out how to get rid of the files on D?

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
Getting rid of them after they are created is curing the symptoms not the cause..

Which Virus/Trojan protection software are you running?
When did you last scan?





To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."

 

[kurtismonger]

I use AVG and I scan daily. I am confident I know why they are showing up and how to stop it from happening again. I have 4 drives and I only got these random files on the 2 that I stopped the nightly Eraser program from running before it was finished.

 

[electronicsfreak]

Well just to be sure id run a couple other antiviruses as this sounds like an actual virus. Id reccomend this antivirus

http://www.free-av.com/

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