Got something bad this morning, my hard drive(40 gig) is filled up except for 2mb of space.
Spybot got 5 or 6 programs which I deleted. MS
antispyware was deleted from my machine! Avg shows nothing. A system restore has put my laptop into working condition, except for the used up hardrive space. Any ideas? I'll be gone 'till this evening. Thanks in advance, JimmyP
spyware/virus question
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Jim Peters
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Erv Niehaus
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Several years ago my computer became infected with a virus. This virus created subdirectory after subdirectory after subdirectory and ate up at the strorage in the hard drive. There was no antivirus program that would delete it. I had to have someone come in and maually delete all the subdirectories. It got sooooo bad that it didn't even have enough capacity to boot up Windows anymore.
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Tom Diemer
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Jim, you might try running stinger, see what it finds. http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/
It sounds like a virus. Bagle, for one, fills up your drive with virus files if you get infected. Probably others that do the same thing. Keep in mind, if you find a virus, you'll have to turn off system restore to remove it, then turn it back on afterwords.
It sounds like a virus. Bagle, for one, fills up your drive with virus files if you get infected. Probably others that do the same thing. Keep in mind, if you find a virus, you'll have to turn off system restore to remove it, then turn it back on afterwords.