Unable to delete files. Files have strange ownership and permissions

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Not sure how those files came in or how their pemissions became so. I am trying to delete them but no luck. Any ideas on them would be much appreciated.

[root@com01 sophos-av]# ls -l
total 4
drwxrwxrwx. 2 root root 4096 Dec 21 05:07 rms
[root@com01 sophos-av]# ls -l rms/
ls: cannot access /proc/3344: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /var/log/wtmp: No such file or directory
total 0
-????????? ? ? ? ? ? /proc/3344
-????????? ? ? ? ? ? /var/log/wtmp
[root@com01 sophos-av]#
[root@com01 sophos-av]#
[root@com01 sophos-av]# rm -rf *
rm: cannot remove `rms': Directory not empty
[root@com01 sophos-av]# cd rms
[root@com01 rms]# ls -lai
ls: cannot access /proc/3344: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /var/log/wtmp: No such file or directory
total 8
131105 drwxrwxrwx. 2 root root 4096 Dec 21 05:07 .
131079 drwxr-x--x. 3 root sophosav 4096 Dec 21 03:45 ..
? -?????????? ? ? ? ? ? /proc/3344
? -?????????? ? ? ? ? ? /var/log/wtmp

They dont have inode numbers so that failed. I tried to delete the parent dir using inode number, didnt help. It gave "no such file" for the files underneath.

Here is the strace output if that helps:

[root@com01 rms]# strace rm -rf *
execve("/bin/rm", ["rm", "-rf", "/proc/3344", "/var/log/wtmp"], [/* 28 vars */]) = 0
brk(0) = 0x833000
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f7f14c7f000
access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=49881, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 49881, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f7f14c72000
close(3) = 0
open("/lib64/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\2\1\1\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0000\356!\3637\0\0\0"..., 832) = 832
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1930416, ...}) = 0
mmap(0x37f3200000, 3750184, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x37f3200000
mprotect(0x37f338a000, 2097152, PROT_NONE) = 0
mmap(0x37f358a000, 24576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x18a000) = 0x37f358a000
mmap(0x37f3590000, 14632, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x37f3590000
close(3) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f7f14c71000
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f7f14c70000
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f7f14c6f000
arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_FS, 0x7f7f14c70700) = 0
mprotect(0x37f358a000, 16384, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0x37f2c1f000, 8192, PROT_READ) = 0
munmap(0x7f7f14c72000, 49881) = 0
brk(0) = 0x833000
brk(0x854000) = 0x854000
open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=99164480, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 99164480, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f7f0eddc000
close(3) = 0
ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_NEXT_DEVICE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
lstat("/", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0555, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/3344", 0x835350, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
unlinkat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/3344", 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/var/log/wtmp", 0x835470, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
unlinkat(AT_FDCWD, "/var/log/wtmp", 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
close(0) = 0
close(1) = 0
close(2) = 0
exit_group(0) = ?
+++ exited with 0 +++

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