Mysterious files with names like 000c3b669755dcf in My Documents


  1. Posts : 15
    Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
       #1

    Mysterious files with names like 000c3b669755dcf in My Documents


    I know its a bad title but I'm lost on what to call it.

    Anywho, I support my company's computers and one of my users reported a collection of detritus appearing my My Documents.



    I thought it strange that the file name and author were the same as well.

    I haven't the foggiest idea what would cause this or how to prevent it. Sure I could simply delete the files an hope for the best but I was hoping the community may have some insight as to what we're looking at here.

    Many thanks for any help :)
      My Computer


  2. Posts : 15
    Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
    Thread Starter
       #2

    Ok wow. So I dug more into this and I failed to notice that this view was sorted by author.
    So it's showing a list of documents by author name.

    I've never seen this before.

    Mystery solved.

    Sorry to be a bother.
      My Computer


  3. Posts : 3,800
    win 8 32 bit
       #3

    Can you use or read the files OK? It looks similar to files being encrypted by ransomware
      My Computer


 

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