I had a customer bring me a very odd problem today. Their laptop is steadily filling up with small files full of non-text gibberish, each one called something like "abcdefgh.t" Always a short string of random characters, then a .t
Looks like one is being created every minute or so... and from time to time there will be one of those "program had a problem and has to end" popups, referencing a program "tncqrswe.t"
Anyone seen this before?
Any clues, please?
2007-01-20 13:56:41 · 4 answers · asked by IanP 6 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
yes this would be a virus. Most likely it is a virus that adds hundreds of files to your computer until you have so many your computer just starts crashing form insufficeint memory. I suggest trying to track down the location of the main data file and corrupt it, open the file as a text document and scramble the code and save., delting will not do anything, that will only make it worse if the virus is set to work faster when someone attempts to delete it. once you scramble the code it will work.
2007-01-20 14:03:35 · answer #1 · answered by dustinh456 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you should take the HD out and scan it using another computer, this way the virus program will not be active. Otherwise if you have a bootable virus scanner disk you can use it. It should be detected by any antivirus program if it is a known virus.
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2007-01-20 22:55:31 · answer #3 · answered by Neo 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
i had this exact same problem and yes its a virus ur best bet would be to save everything on another hd drive and reinstall xp or whatever op, thats what i had to do..... its not worth fighting
2007-01-20 22:06:04 · answer #4 · answered by Mike (Rambo) 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋