Suspected virus causing windows temp to fill up

[Levine]

Dear All
I am running Windows XP, service pack 2 with onecare.
On investigating why my machine has run out of space I found that my
windiws\temp folder was filling up with mysterious folders labelled
zf????.tmp. A new folder is created every 3-4 days.
Is this a virus or some sort of malware?
thanks

 

[John]

Have you scanned your system for bad stuff (viruses, *wares etc)?

"Levine" <Levine@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:75AF5D54-8DA6-4CF2-A221-046FD83B2574@microsoft.com...
> Dear All
> I am running Windows XP, service pack 2 with onecare.
> On investigating why my machine has run out of space I found that my
> windiws\temp folder was filling up with mysterious folders labelled
> zf????.tmp. A new folder is created every 3-4 days.
> Is this a virus or some sort of malware?
> thanks
>

 

[Milo]

ran a scan with this
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

and please do reply about any changes in your system

--
Milo



"Levine" wrote:

> Dear All
> I am running Windows XP, service pack 2 with onecare.
> On investigating why my machine has run out of space I found that my
> windiws\temp folder was filling up with mysterious folders labelled
> zf????.tmp. A new folder is created every 3-4 days.
> Is this a virus or some sort of malware?
> thanks
>