04-14-2016, 04:43 AM
right when I'm about to go to bed, I end-up with the Windows disk space warning, oh, and stuff nearly crashing because of several updaters running at once. Those all got shut-down, but the disk space went from 0.9 gigs to a little over 200.
Little over a day after I moved some very large files to my ext. drive.
The disk space shouldn't be super low.
I checked the temp folder
Which brings me to my reason for this post.
I found a bunch of folders in the temp folder with screenshots in them.
Now, from what I can tell, they all do seem to coincide with a time I pressed printscreen.
What bothers me, though, is I've not seen screenies in temp before, and I'm relatively sure a few of these might pre-date the last time I cleaned the temp folder.
I did a quick google search to see if there was anything about the possibilities of it being a virus or spyware, but I couldn't find anything conlusive. I didn't have a hard time removing said screenies, except a few were apprently locked by windows explorer. This isn't particularly suspicious to me, though, as explorer is notorious for corrupted locking handles. These were removed, still, since I installed unlocker due to getting damn tired of being unable to organize those select few of my files and folders that get randomly perma-locked. Anyways, the one result that seemed like it might have some information did mention that if they were nasty things, prob would be harder to remove. But even this, I'm not sure of.
Anyone have any idea why screenshots would suddenly start appearing in temp? Besides this is a waste of space, I obviously do not like the idea that those are being retained. Some of the screenshots I take have somewhat sensitive information, like my private email address, or the "spam filter key" to my only currently active yahoo email address. It seems odd they'd just suddenly start appearing in the temp folder. Far as I can tell, nothing with critical details was archived/potentially leaked, but still... I'm pretty sure that screenshots are only supposed to be stored either in memory or the clipboard cache, (both extremely temporary) unless explicitly saved by the user, right?
Little over a day after I moved some very large files to my ext. drive.
The disk space shouldn't be super low.
I checked the temp folder
Which brings me to my reason for this post.
I found a bunch of folders in the temp folder with screenshots in them.
Now, from what I can tell, they all do seem to coincide with a time I pressed printscreen.
What bothers me, though, is I've not seen screenies in temp before, and I'm relatively sure a few of these might pre-date the last time I cleaned the temp folder.
I did a quick google search to see if there was anything about the possibilities of it being a virus or spyware, but I couldn't find anything conlusive. I didn't have a hard time removing said screenies, except a few were apprently locked by windows explorer. This isn't particularly suspicious to me, though, as explorer is notorious for corrupted locking handles. These were removed, still, since I installed unlocker due to getting damn tired of being unable to organize those select few of my files and folders that get randomly perma-locked. Anyways, the one result that seemed like it might have some information did mention that if they were nasty things, prob would be harder to remove. But even this, I'm not sure of.
Anyone have any idea why screenshots would suddenly start appearing in temp? Besides this is a waste of space, I obviously do not like the idea that those are being retained. Some of the screenshots I take have somewhat sensitive information, like my private email address, or the "spam filter key" to my only currently active yahoo email address. It seems odd they'd just suddenly start appearing in the temp folder. Far as I can tell, nothing with critical details was archived/potentially leaked, but still... I'm pretty sure that screenshots are only supposed to be stored either in memory or the clipboard cache, (both extremely temporary) unless explicitly saved by the user, right?