Hey there, I badly need some assistance with this. I’m cleaning up this win7 computer and this is what happened.
I ran Mbam, Spybot S&D etc. I went to run a Avast boot scan and left it overnight. I come back the next morning to it still running and at the same percentage (63%) I left it at. First thought was maybe the hard drive has some issues, I wrote that off after some tests. So I’m doing some searching and I see that it hung up in a certain folder. C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5. I go to look in it and it hangs while trying to open. I look to see how big it is and it got to atleast 40 gigs when my jaw dropped. So I’ve googled and tried to find ways to delete this massive folder to no avail. Which I now know is at least over 90GB. I’ve used cmd prompt and I just can’t tell if it’s making a dent, besides a few gigs here and there being freed on the hard drive. I finally caught a glimpse of what was inside. A ton of .js files with the title anx_async_usersync_000000. With different sets of numbers. With the size being under 5KB I believe.
I’ve tried ccleaner and it didn’t do anything. And any scans I try to do get stuck scanning that folder. I put an exemption on avast full scan for the folder but than it just gets hung up on lsm.exe.
