Virus is causing loss of disk space

Gaelen

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I have been having an issue with what I believe to be a virus, worm, or spyware that is causing rapid and constant loss of disk space. I downloaded MalwareBytes a day or so back and discovered something like 200 different infected files on my computer. I deleted them all but it made little difference. I have since run every single virus scan that I can think of or find and have had anti-virus for quite some time now. I currently have no disk space left and am afraid that if I free up any more that it will simply be filled up as well.
 
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what antivirus program you used to scan the pc... do you still see infected files when you run malware bytes? or do you see anything usual on the pc.. any fraud program or software appearing?
also check on task manager .. send us a screen shot of your task manager "processes" to see if there isn't any fraud application running..

also run ccleaner and do a "disk cleanup" under system tools .. if you dont know how to do that let us know..

cheers
 

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Ashvin:
I have used Trend Micro to scan the pc. I no longer see infected files in malware bytes now that I have deleted them. I have not seen any program running that appears to be a fraud. I am unable to get a screen shot of the processes right now but I will keep trying. As for cccleaner and disk cleanup, I have done both and the hard drive has filled up again.
 

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Heyyy,
How big are the drives? your not downloading a massive file/torrent?

Daniel =)
 

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garbon74136:
I was thinking about putting this down. No, it is not system restore given the malware that I found on the computer and the fact that there are no restore points anywhere on system restore. Good idea though.
 

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on my clients computer, there were no malware, or restore points, but after looking at every thing else I could think of, I used windirstat, and saw that the drive was being filled up by the system restore, so I disabled system restore (even though Vista reported no restore points), and this fixed the issue....

the original thread for this issue may be something else, but I know it worked for my clients problem...

http://windirstat.info/
 

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If it is system restore then go to start>all programs and accessories> system tools and click on disk clean up then click OK on drive C:

Now select 'Files from all users on this computer' then provide UAC confirmation.

Then click the More options tab

then click 'Clean Up' for system restore and shadow copies (The clean up tool may become unresponsive this is normal and let it do it's thing)

after that go to the disk clean up tab and click ok

And you're done

Hope this helps,
Josh
 

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garbon74136 & Shadowjk:
Thanks for both of your suggestions, guys, but I tried them both and neither solved my problem. I am pretty sure that it is not a problem with my computer but rather something that is affecting my computer. A Virus, for example. If anybody has any more suggestions, that would be great!
 

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Download DDS from one of these links:

Mirror 1 Mirror 2 Mirror 3
  • Disable any script blocking protection
  • Double click the dds icon to run the tool. (right click, run as Administrator on Vista/Windows 7)
  • When done, DDS will open two (2) logs:
    1. DDS.txt
    2. Attach.txt
  • Save both reports to your desktop.
Include the contents of both logs in your new topic.
The scan will instruct you to post Attach.txt as an attachment.
No need for that though ..... just post it's contents as you would any other log.

I'll take a look and see what's going on :)
 

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Try to connect the hard drive externally to another computer.. run a virus scan and malware scan on it.. check the disk size and post back.. this is to narrow dowm where you windows got virus or not or its the hard drive itself palying up
 

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Hello try Kaspersky internet security, try the trial I have used them for 4 years now.
 

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it may not be a virus, check C/ programs (over 1 GB) /common programs/ dell/ apache/ logs/error. if this is high, above 1 GB, I know the answer. Control-Alt-Delete, Task manager/ services, find apache, if not stopped, press services , find Apache again, high light it, put mouse on stop ( upper left of page) and left click. As soon as the apache stops, your memory on your disk is back.
 

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    Dell Inspiron
    CPU
    Pentium (R) Dual Core CPU
    Motherboard
    [email protected]
    Memory
    4.00 GB
To all with large disk memory loss.
It may be the apache app that is working tooo hard, stop it.
Use task manager, services, find apache and stop it.
 

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    Dell Inspiron
    CPU
    Pentium (R) Dual Core CPU
    Motherboard
    [email protected]
    Memory
    4.00 GB
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