How to disable pclzip gzippedcompressed archive generation?

Hello all, quick question

Once upon a time, several versions ago, I had this code in my htaccess:

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/javascript text/css application/javascript

and “gzip archive” enabled in my supercache plugin, and my site was fast and all was well with the world

But somewhere laong the way, and seemingly without any intervention on my part other than routine version upgrade of both WP and my various plugins, my WP install began generating literally THOUSANDS of these gzip compressed archives – literally 80,000 of them in the space of two weeks, taking my site down and overwhelming my feeble FTP program so that I couldn’t even list to delete them – had to have host sysadmins do it for me

So, I turned of\f compression in supercache and removed the “deflate” command from htaccess – hoping this would soleve – 1 minute later there were 500 fresh gzip-compressed-archives filling up the rootlvel of my WP site

at this rate the whole thing will fill up the disk again within 48 hours. Its like some kind of crazy replicating virus I can’t figur eout how to disable

anyone else ever experience this? Obvious I have something turned on I shouldn’t – but WTF? what is it?

Many thx