andrew
December 13th 03, 12:56 AM
HEY, my brother's partner in chicago had this problem....
check your system for a replicating *.vbs file.... it's
actually an old virus, that of course McAfee doesn't
catch. I'm going to plug the virus finder that found it
for us, www.grisoft.com AVG virus finder, free
version, and a lisenced version for $30 for two years.
It did the trick, and no more 50 gig consumptions of HDD
space an hour after reboot.
>-----Original Message-----
>I have one drive partioned into two drives
>c: 15 GB
>d: 65 GB
>
>Lately, the C: drive message says out of space but I
dont
>not install programs or save files to this drive. The
OS
>and Office XP are on C: only.
>
>I went from a 9 GB free to 31 MB overnight.
>
>I downloaded a disc cleaner program and it recovered all
>the space instantly giving me 9GB free again. I used the
>system for another three hours and turned of off for the
>night. When I booted back up, the again I received the
>message out of space. Each time I checked the
properties
>of the C: and sure enough it was full.
>
>I have McAfee and have looked for viruses but could
there
>be a temp file program creating junk files that large in
>that short of a period?
>
>I have moved my swap file to my secondary drive to
assist
>but it still is causing issues.
>
>Thanks
>
>Jason
>.
>
check your system for a replicating *.vbs file.... it's
actually an old virus, that of course McAfee doesn't
catch. I'm going to plug the virus finder that found it
for us, www.grisoft.com AVG virus finder, free
version, and a lisenced version for $30 for two years.
It did the trick, and no more 50 gig consumptions of HDD
space an hour after reboot.
>-----Original Message-----
>I have one drive partioned into two drives
>c: 15 GB
>d: 65 GB
>
>Lately, the C: drive message says out of space but I
dont
>not install programs or save files to this drive. The
OS
>and Office XP are on C: only.
>
>I went from a 9 GB free to 31 MB overnight.
>
>I downloaded a disc cleaner program and it recovered all
>the space instantly giving me 9GB free again. I used the
>system for another three hours and turned of off for the
>night. When I booted back up, the again I received the
>message out of space. Each time I checked the
properties
>of the C: and sure enough it was full.
>
>I have McAfee and have looked for viruses but could
there
>be a temp file program creating junk files that large in
>that short of a period?
>
>I have moved my swap file to my secondary drive to
assist
>but it still is causing issues.
>
>Thanks
>
>Jason
>.
>