What are these?

[iloverunescape]

In windows/system/dt
There are 11,108 files that are taking up 1.15 gigs of the hard drive.
Here are 4 of them:

2004-09-19_19-55-58-6399307
2004-11-08_18-08-35-14685065
th_2004-11-10_22-41-30-16295916
th_2004-11-10_23-15-07-1880256

Does anyone have any idea what these are? The first section that looks like a date is a date, is coresponds with the modify date. For the past several months my hard drive free space has been getting used up without downloading anything. I think these are what is filling the hard drive up. Them using over a gig on an almost 4 gig drive is a problem. Can they be safely deleted?

[Gabriel]

are those files or folders?

from a first look those files look like garbage or temporary information (many application use temporary files but don't do "Garbage collection" at the end of the process).

if they are files what is the extenssion?

if you don't have the extenssion (or the extension is not true) - you can always use TRID (http://mark0.ngi.it/soft-trid-e.html) (command line version) to Identify the files.

try moving the files to another volume and see if something breaks (like a program that stops responding).


I will be lurking here,
Gabriel

[Tekboy]

You might try using an online Virus Scan of some sort, as I have seen several virus files that cause this sort of "disk filling" stunt.

The whole thing smells like virus to me.

[Rogue1987]

Thats really weird. they might be backups made when you installed somthing, but I'm not shure.
May have been made by a virus too.

[iloverunescape]

I know it has be a while, but about a week after posting this I found out it was a kelogger creating screenshots every 5 minutes. I do not remember what the keylogger was, but I removed it and the files where no longer created.