Hi. Please excuse me because I've never posted to any forum before.
I had a tech over to check my computer and he found a whole series of files that started out as t1oo (26 of these) and t350 (14 of these) with all different extensions like am, ar, at, b0, etc. They were all 0 KB and had the same modification date. The times for one group was the same, then the next group would be a few minutes later, etc., but all times were between 1:47 and 1:59 PM. When I checked Properties, it said no viruses were found, but it's still a bit disconcerting to have all these useless (?) files there.
He said he was totally unfamiliar with this, did some searching on the web and came up with nothing. Does anyone know what these are, and can I delete them?

I sure hope I can find my way back here to see if anyone has an answer.

BTW, Dell DIMENSION E510, XP Media Center Editon, SP2. Is that enough info?

ArtieWhat dfirectory were they in ? ?
Installed any new hardware/software recently ? ?
Are you USING a webcam or digital camera on that machine ? ?I clicked on My Computer and then Local Disk (C:) and there they were.

No webcam or digital camera.

I had to reinstall my HP printer about a week or two ago because I had done a "restore" trying to get my computer to work better (it sort of had the hiccups and was really slow) and I lost my printer. But nothing was installed on the date that says these files were "modified".

So they are in the root folder of C: ? ?

List all the protection programs you have installed currently and we'll go from there...If opening My Computer and double clicking on Local Disk (C:) which opens a window with a heading of C:\ means it's in the "root folder" of C, then yes.

And by protection programs, I assume that you mean virus, spy and trojan protection?

CounterSpy, Trend Micro PC-cillin, Trojan Hunter, to the BEST of my knowledge (which is obviously quite limited)

I'm not real good at technical stuff.Remove all those programs, I think one of em is actually spyware itself...

GO to www.avast.com, get the free anti virus and enjoy yourself.

And delete those files. They are nothing.Keep your protection programs they are fine.Quote from: lil_falco on August 10, 2007, 07:15:44 PM

Remove all those programs, I think one of em is actually spyware itself...

GO to www.avast.com, get the free anti virus and enjoy yourself.

And delete those files. They are nothing.