Wierd Files in My Trash

Has anybody encountered this type of file?
␀␀␀␀␀␀␀.␀␀␀
It's a series of backslashes made of the word NUL. Preview column indicates that the kind is Alias, size is Zero KB on disk, Last opened only says Fetching.... I click on more info and it disappears.
It only appeared quite recently and only when I move a file to the Trash. I don't remember what happened or what I was doing. I don't have Time Machine turned on because I don't have the spare disk space.
I dragged the file to Terminal and it shows that it's on the .trash of a shared FAT32 drive on my network. I've tried deleting it from that particular folder, but it just reappears.
Can somebody please help me? I'm a bit paranoid about this kind of things, which is why I moved from Windows to Mac.

Hi babynajj, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Ran across your problem researching another one, and never get to this section, but yes others have.
http://forums.macnn.com/90/mac-os-x/378816/weird-file-in-trash/
It's from a .Trash File on a Windows volume, and must be repaired with Windows® & chkdsk or whatever.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071218191518177
Ah, I see Macjack has an article...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6623217
Good luck.

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