Random Temp Files

THT · 17 Mar 2006 at 10:46

Something on my machine is creating loads of *.tmp files.
EG:

snoA.tmp

ANy idea whats causing this?

THT · 17 Mar 2006 at 11:19

THT said:
Something on my machine is creating loads of *.tmp files.
EG:

snoA.tmp

ANy idea whats causing this?

just got some more :
snoAF.tmp
snoB0.tmp

THT · 19 Mar 2006 at 16:04

MaxPower · 19 Mar 2006 at 17:16

Reboot into safe mode and run a full virus scan.

Where are these files appearing?

THT · 19 Mar 2006 at 17:48

there just appearing in root of c:\

ill try a virus check then

M0KUJ1N · 19 Mar 2006 at 18:06

A more "low-level" approach would be to run filemon, filter out the standard Windows activity such as svchost, winlogon etc and see if you can find out what application is producing these files that way. It may turn out that it is all perfectly innocent, but better safe than sorry