Bizarre folder injection issue (virus/trojan?)

RushRaccoon · 14 Jan 2015

This is the strangest thing i've ever seen and there is NOTHING on google about it.

about two weeks about seemingly out of no where almost every subfolder on my D drive (not my main, my C drive is fine) has a folder in it that has been renamed to:

__rar_tmp

and I mean it's almost in every folder, it's completely broken all my steam games just because it breaks the directory. I'm guessing i'm out of luck because no one I have asked IT pro or not has not heard of this.

I have my D drive root set as my rar temp directory, but it's been that way for years and usually it only makes a few folders with names like $rar. So I have no idea if it's a trojan or what. If anyone has any ideas i'd love to hear it!

cottonball · 17 Jan 2015

Have you downloaded some sort of game that came through as an incomplete downloads or unzip, and caused the _rar_tmp files to appear?

I am not into any type of gaming, however, it appears there is no reputable information coming from the malware community on the issue you are having.

RushRaccoon · 17 Jan 2015

I don't think any game unpacking would cause something like that, but I do download several games that are compressed and unpack into a folder. Still I really doubt that could be it.

There is probably no solution here.