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Oh thank you itman! That might be the exact issue going on here.

Thank you Marcos. I believe it is from on-demand scans actually. I do have archives switched off but self-extracting archives are on, are self-extracting archives also a cause of this?

I've been noticing a dramatic spike in CPU on a single core and have deduced this is from ESET. I ran ProcMon to find out more about what's happening and it appears to be "ekrn.exe" reading an INSANE amount of .tmp files in C:\Windows\Temp\. All of the files look like this C:\Windows\Temp\NOD****.tmp (NOD6BD1.tmp, NOD7627.tmp, etc, etc.) When I look at my temp folder, these files are nowhere to be seen. Does anybody know what's going on? Thank you.