tmp files in

[Guest]

Hello I have WinXP home.
In the system 32 file I have thousands of tmp. files that just keep
multiplying. I deleted them and after a while they just came back. They can
be even over 100.000 tmp files. Their names are just very big numbers, with a
lot of digits.
My antivirus, spyware and adware find nothing.

Can someone help me get rid of them?
I don't know what to do.

Thank you
Jimmy

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hello I have WinXP home.
In the system 32 file I have thousands of tmp. files that just keep
multiplying. I deleted them and after a while they just came back. They
can
be even over 100.000 tmp files. Their names are just very big numbers,
with a
lot of digits.
My antivirus, spyware and adware find nothing.

Can someone help me get rid of them?
I don't know what to do.

Thank you
Jimmy

The short-term measure: create a job that deletes these files
once every hour. You can do it like so:
- Click Start / Run / notepad c:\Windows\DeleteTemp.bat{OK}
- Say "Yes" when prompted.
- Type these lines:
@echo off
:again
del /q c:\windows\system32\*.tmp
ping localhost -n 3600 > nul
goto again
- Save & close the file.
- Click Start / Run / c:\windows\DeleteTemp.bat {OK}
- Minimise the window if it bothers you.

About the temp files themselves:
- What do they contain?
- How big are they?
- How long has this been going on?
- What is your %temp% folder?
- Do they appear in Safe Mode too?