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HDD space decreasing everyday by 10's of GB's without me having downloaded anything
  1. 04 Aug 2010 #1


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    HDD space decreasing everyday by 10's of GB's without me having downloaded anything

    i have a HDD of 320 GB and a couple of days back due to some unexplained reason it just keeps decreasing..i even deleted 40 gigs of memory and even decreased shadowspace allocation still the memory never increased to more than 12 GB even if it did the space is eaten up almost immediately..it once reduced from 60 gigs to 20 gigs in just a day..and i dint even download anything...plz help me fellas..i need it bad :S


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    Re: HDD space decreasing everyday by 10's of GB's without me having downloaded anythi

    Scan with your antivirus and this
    Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware: Malwarebytes

    If negagtive may be your restore points.

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    thx i wl give it a try...

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    Re: HDD space decreasing everyday by 10's of GB's without me having downloaded anythi

    Regardless of the results, scan with the AntiVirus and Malwarebytes, at least, weekly. Prevent future problems.

    If all is negative and you have no other options, this will pinpoint the missing space.

    http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml

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    Re: HDD space decreasing everyday by 10's of GB's without me having downloaded anythi

    Quote Originally Posted by richc46 View Post
    Regardless of the results, scan with the AntiVirus and Malwarebytes, at least, weekly. Prevent future problems.
    Also if possible schedule a scan and that should help, if you going to do one manually every week then do a quick scan for a quick time scan and if you think you have been infected then I would run a Full system Scan Be warned this process can take up to 3 Hours depending on the amount of Data on your HDD.

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    Re: HDD space decreasing everyday by 10's of GB's without me having downloaded anythi

    i do scan my system everyday via AVG...and im using SUPERantispyware too..and yeah i also ran a disk analysis using glary utilities and it calculated only 140 gigs of used space the rest is "i dont know where"..plus just out of curiosity im using the BitComet torrent client..do u think maybe i imported somekind of a virus through it?!?!?!i mean i know the files are tested against any viruses before uploading since i download through TPB..but still maybe??

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    Re: HDD space decreasing everyday by 10's of GB's without me having downloaded anythi

    The Pirate Bay don't test all of their torrents for Viruses and you can be Vulnerable it is possible to obtain a Virus or a Trojan I would run a Full System Scan

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    ppl i scanned the whole system wid AV and also malwarebytes...no viruses detected...still the space moving south...

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    Re: HDD space decreasing everyday by 10's of GB's without me having downloaded anythi

    It may be your Restore points But unlikely for it to obtain that amount of data anyway could you delete your restore points. Turning off system restore will delete all the points you can enable it afterwards

    see Turn System Restore on or off For More Information



    You may want to see this : System Restore - disk space

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    Re: HDD space decreasing everyday by 10's of GB's without me having downloaded anythi

    i cant switch system restore off since it says im not allowed to do so under some group policy thing..well but i run my system as the admin..but still cant to nothing bout it

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