Strange files in Internet Temp files area 2

[Bocaire]

In looking over the large number of files that a accumulate in this path

C:\Documents and Settings\Ronald Hirsch\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files

I see almost 2000 files with very strange properties. And this machine has only been running for 7 weeks or so since I finished building it.

They are all zero bytes
They all have attributes of RHSA
They have dates ranging from 1969 to 2033
They have a wide variety of extensions, with most of them being jpg or gif

What the devil are they, and how did they get all these strange characteristics? RHSA should be the attribute for hidden system files, but these don't seem to qualify

I assume that all can be deleted.

Ron Hirsch

 

[linney]

Just a comment that in the Cookies folder I looked at, some had [1} and some had [2] in the name, [2]'s did not appear to be a duplicate of [1]'s, I don't know what the significance of it is, you are certainly turning up some strange stuff.

 

[Bocaire]

Hi Linney,

Actually, now that I look more closely, my cookies folder does have all files with either [1], or [2}. The TIF folder has just plain file names, with no bracketed numbers.

I looked too casually, and gave you an incorrect reading.

Sorry 'bout that.

I wonder why MS structured things that way??

Bocaire