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There is a mysterious unidentified folder C:/users/public/L001 where this L001 is the folder bothering me.

It has a size of 41 GB . It's size is constantly increasing , about 0.1 GB every 3-4 days.

It contains about 1,90,591 Files currently. Even the number of files is increasing.

All the files are extension-less. All of them have the name of format date_time. For example : 2012-09-02_08-45-50.

Then there are similarly names files of name : fcdate_time

And then there are files with name : sddate_time

It also contains following files (extensionless) :

  1. W0000 of size 151 MB.
  2. W0002
  3. W0003
  4. subcfg

(Last three have size of few KBs)

I cannot understand what is causing this. I am not sure whether or not to delete the folder because i want to free up some space.

djsmiley2kStaysInside
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Here are the origin of the problem:

Virus Profile: Generic Dropper!22BCE7D44BAF

You may want to install some free antivirus like Avira or Microsoft Security Essentials.

You can (and should) use MalwareBytes Anti-Malware to try to remove this threat.

If you already have an anti-virus (eg AVG), make sure the automatic updates of definititions files are enabled and working. Without these updates, your antivirus is useless.

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