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Topic: spyware/virus question |
Jim Peters
From:
St. Louis, Missouri, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 13 Dec 2005 6:09 am |
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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 |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 13 Dec 2005 8:06 am
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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
From:
Defiance, Ohio USA
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Posted 13 Dec 2005 5:43 pm
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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.
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