Graham51 Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Hey, I have noticed today that my HDD space is slowly decreasing, yet I'm not doing anything. I'm connected to the internet, but not downloading anything. I have no suspicious programs running. I began to write down how much space that I'm loosing and how often it's happening. It worked out that I am loosing 100MB every 30 SECONDS! Why is this happening and can you please help me make it stop! Thanks, Graham. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Audioboxer Subscriber² Posted April 10, 2008 Subscriber² Share Posted April 10, 2008 Could be a virus. Only virus I've ever had in my life (few years back), duplicated files until every drive I had had 0.00 space. Mucked up my PC badly. You have a decent scanner installed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twisted Chaz Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 My friend had this and he was running McAfee. I unistalled it, and the problem went away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorak Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Skynet is taking over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber Nemesis Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Go grab tree size and see if you can find the files. Disable NIC or unplug, whatever, as see if it stops. http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml Sounds like something logging out of control, if not a virus mentioned already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger H. Veteran Posted April 10, 2008 Veteran Share Posted April 10, 2008 Skynet is taking over. i LOLed :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Kompressor Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 disable all network adapters. use Treesize as suggested to find the files or you could try using TCPview to view network connections with fancy GUI and Process Explorer both from Sysinternals to see what's going on in the background. It could be compromised and being used for storage by someone or bot controller on the net. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham51 Posted April 10, 2008 Author Share Posted April 10, 2008 Could be a virus.Only virus I've ever had in my life (few years back), duplicated files until every drive I had had 0.00 space. Mucked up my PC badly. You have a decent scanner installed? I did have, it ran out a few days ago. I'll do a free one online quickly and see if it picks up anything. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kushan Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Yeah this can happen when a program that logs stuff gets a bit out of hand. I think Rivatuner did a similar thing to me a while back when it was logging temperatures for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber Nemesis Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 If you have a virus a few days ago this is to much of a coincidence to ignore. Go grab a free AV and install it. You still have something in there. I live Avast, but there are many others. http://www.avast.com/eng/download.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham51 Posted April 10, 2008 Author Share Posted April 10, 2008 Right. So I just did a quick virus scan. Nothing. I DLed TreeSize - since I did so it has stopped. I really don't know whats going on. I installed a windows update earlier, could that be it? Graham. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majortom1981 Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 If you have a virus a few days ago this is to much of a coincidence to ignore.Go grab a free AV and install it. You still have something in there. I live Avast, but there are many others. http://www.avast.com/eng/download.html I agree with avast. Avast has caught a virus on a computer i was cleaning out for somebody that mcafee completely missed. It has helped me a great deal with other peoples virus and ad ware laden systems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forster Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 You could be running FRAPS and accidently taking a movie of absolutely nothing but your desktop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Audioboxer Subscriber² Posted April 10, 2008 Subscriber² Share Posted April 10, 2008 You could be running FRAPS and accidently taking a movie of absolutely nothing but your desktop. Talking from experience there? :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham51 Posted April 10, 2008 Author Share Posted April 10, 2008 I don't have anything that records the screen. It has completely stopped now, thanks for your help. Just want to find out what it was now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 My friend had this and he was running McAfee. I unistalled it, and the problem went away. I think the problem was that McAfee was putting the virus in the vault, and never stopping. I remember reading this about Norton. This guy was cleaning out a client's PC. Over 70GB to remove of the same file! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richardarkless Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 um have you tried a live cd of linux and checking if it is lowering in there as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forster Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Talking from experience there? :rofl: Yeah, thankfully it kept a good record of what I was fapping to, so I just need to watch that one vid now :p (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber Nemesis Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Do you have restore points enabled? If you just did the windows updates, it could have been system restore doing its work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricardo Gil Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Don't worry, that's just your botnet returning credit card numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham51 Posted April 10, 2008 Author Share Posted April 10, 2008 I must've spoken too soon. When I left that last post. The space left in my C:/ was 7.15GB. 30 mins later, it's 4.78GB. I have 1HDD partitioned into 4. It's only happening to this one. (This is where the OS is installed). Help again? Graham. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PL_ Veteran Posted April 10, 2008 Veteran Share Posted April 10, 2008 um have you tried a live cd of linux and checking if it is lowering in there as well Well it sounds like his Used space is growing, the size of the drive itself isn't changing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricardo Gil Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 I must've spoken too soon. When I left that last post. The space left in my C:/ was 7.15GB. 30 mins later, it's 4.78GB.I have 1HDD partitioned into 4. It's only happening to this one. (This is where the OS is installed). Help again? Graham. Just use treesize to find the "black hole". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a8ball Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 do a search for files modified in the last day and sort by time, whatever is most currently modified is probably it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham51 Posted April 10, 2008 Author Share Posted April 10, 2008 I've just checked TreeSize. It says exactly the same (give of take a few MB) as it did when there was 7+GB space left. Even though it says theres 4.78 left. Maybe it thinks it's being used up - but actually isn't. I really don't know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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