Weird characters in the top of Magento Connect

Magento site had weird characters in the top of Magento Connect

We tried to installing a plugin and got weird characters in the top error. It turns out the problem was a bunch of (hidden) duplicate PHP files in lib/Mage/Connect. For example, there's Remote.php but there was also ._Remote.php.
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