Thousands of brushes & styles from hell!

I need some help. We have an illustraor file that has a bizillion custom loaded brushes and graphic styles from hell, that we got from an agency. We have no idea where they came from but in the list it says brush plugin object 1-2 3 etc up into the thousands! That many just kills the file. The strange thing though is whenever you copy anything from that "infected" file and paste it into a new one, it loads those thousands of brushes/styles into that new one! Also if you try to delete these from the infected file(which takes a solid 10mins!) after you re-open it they are all back again! Whats going on? How do we destroy this menace?!!

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. They dropped on you one of nastiest problem in Illustrator I refer to as the HUH error/deleted global colors, in the UK a few call it lazy duck (why I never found out).
This post will give you a few solutions. To permanently remove this follow my instructions which involve some moderate editing the code in a text editor. There are some other solutions others provide which can help ease your pain if you want to stay away from editing code.
As you have already learned do not copy anything from an infected file to a good one. This spreads very fast, even copying 1 small elements spreads this to another file, and again to every other file that you paste into.

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