Flash Player is creating thousands of .tmp files

Posted by Ed Manet on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Ed Manet
Published on 2011-01-17T15:44:01Z Indexed on 2011/01/17 15:55 UTC
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We have seen a number of machines in our environment (XP Pro SP3) that have been running out of disk space because of .TMP files in the windows\temp folder. One machine had 6GB of .TMP files on it starting from around August 2010.

The files are all 305kb in size and they seem to get created every 10 minutes. The files appear to be either .EXEs or .DLLs when opened in a hex editor. The words "this program can not be run in DOS mode" are at the beginning of the file and the words "Adobe Flash Player" are scattered all over the end of the file (probably the string table).

While it's easy enough to clean them up, I'd like to find root cause for the issue.

Has anybody else seen this?

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