what are these files in my recycle bin and where are they coming from???

Question

i have these files in my recycle bin that are labeled RB3, RB4, RB5F, RB6 and so on. all of these files say temporary file but i am not placing them their. they seem to appear when i boot up my pc, i have done spyware,adware and antivirus checks both in normal mode and under safe mode but i find nothing. does anyone know what these are and where they are coming from? i empty the bin everytime i see them but they keep coming back. the only way i can see to get rid of them and what is causing them completely is to fomat and re-install my o.s . all sensible answers welcome

Answer 1

You have a virus probally. Especially if you are addicted to Porn. I would recomend staying out of the porn sites. Seriously I would reformat the hard drive and re-install the operating system but save anything you want to save on disk like documents, pictures, etc.

Answer 2

Hi David,
We have had that crop up at work.
It transpired that some rogue had got a hold of the URL, from trashed files poked in the bin. As tou point out, such nonesense as RB* appear
I did a system track, and found his URL, blocked it with a s*d off message, and all is now well..
My policy to folks in the emporium is not to simply bin things, but to park them on the server under Z drive, then I can "shred" them daily.
The home equivelent would be to restart, select the offending items, and use Norton Utilities or similar, to perform a wipe.
This fills the disc space with zeros, thrice if needs be.
Chucking stuff into Bill Gates' re-cycle bin, or even going into the DOS & typing "del *.*" only removes the entry in the file access table, not the file itself, which may be retrievable.

Mr Norton, then, in my humble opinion, is the place to go.

All the best with it,
Bob

Answer 3

If you google the name of the file it will give you a definition of what the file is. It could be ad ware, malware, back door Trojans down loaders, I have googled many different types file names thinking they were viruses and come to find there just temp files from some type of software you either down loaded or removed and that can only be removed after a system restart. So just google the name of the file and read what it gives you as an explanation

Answer 4

Do a seek for the record and notice if it comes up in checklist - if no longer its long gone. additionally in case you wanna bypass the recycle bin altogether, choose record you prefer to delete then carry down shift and hit the delete button (no longer backspace however the single that announces delete on it). A message comes up confirming you prefer to delete hit confident and its long gone for stable! (nicely there are procedures back yet its a soreness lol) :-P

Answer 5

Is RBrowser installed on your computer or have you looked at a demo of it? Remote file system browser for use in browsing files on a host sytem ( or local ) and also works with FTP (file transfer protocol) Check your system for RBrowser.

Answer 6

It seems that your system is infected with Viruses. My frien No antivirus can guarantee 100 % protection.

Back up all data and Format your system and do clean Install

Best of Luck

Answer 7

To get rid of a virus,I`ve got some great Free Anti-Virus tools.Just search these in google,or donload.com :

Virus Chaser
Spybot
KazaaBegone
Cool Web Shredder (If you`ve used coolwebsearch.com as a search engine)

Answer 8

just empty the recycle bin thats it not a system file

Answer 9

Have you tried checking their original location? you can do this by right-clicking on them and choosing properties... if you know where they are coming from then maybe you'll know what causes them to go to your recycle bin..

Answer 10

Right click your mouse on the files and go to "Properties".
What does it say?