somethis is eating up my harddrive space !! can it be some virus ?how to check?i use norton Corporate edn.?

Question

out of 24 gb the space left is under 200 mb..i have .net 2k5 and sql 2005 as haeavy apps.. nd plus windows XP updates..in widnows directory as space eaters..cant find anyting else taking up so much space.. :( HELP!!

Answer 1

lets get that out of ur pc ur some antivirus will miss key keylogger and trojans . frist of all you need to download avg antispyware this is verry good in getting all kinda bad files . then you need to download Adaware
a-squared< is verry good in picking up traking software files that is on the pc and it will find them . then download antispyware blocker that will find any type of virus . trojans files with antispyware blocker when you run that at the top of the box ur see
C:\ WINDOWS
remove the word windows and just leave in

C:\

then hit scan it will search all of the pc every file for virus or trojans and this will not have any problem with ur antivirus you have i have this my self .

then download spyware doctor that will search the pc for even more spyware adaware . just having 1 or 2 antispyware dont cut any ice at all you neeed what i said to download . when you have them run ur pc in safemode and scan the pc with then 1 at a time . this way from safemode the trojan and keylogger cant hide them self coz there is not internet access on in safe mode all the software i said to download will get the trojans and keylogger

if they say some are in the registry you watch what path there in and get in the registry and right hit on that folder and hit remove dont worry when the pc restart up win xp will creat a new clean folder for you

Answer 2

Download Adware and Spyware removal programs. Run 3 at a time because one program may find culprits that the others won't. I use Spybot a free program, Spyware Blaster and then Lavasoft Adware removal programs all free if you don't mind manually updating them. Quarantine the culprits. Then go to "Start" then "Control Panel" make sure you are looking at the "Category View". Then go to "Performance and Maintenance" Click on "Free up space on my hard disk" then click on "Rearrange programs to make programs run faster."There you will run defrag.
If you have a lot of download and photos on your drive transfer them to CD or delete them. Run your anti virus. If you have Hewlett Packard you restore your drive to an earlier date when you know it ran OK. Hopefully this will help.

Answer 3

get rid of norton (cause they suck big time) and get avast and avg + get ad-aware se personal edition from lavasoft + get ccleaner and that's all u need to fix ur computer also u can scrape up around $100 dollers and go to best buy or circut city and get a bigger hard drive aroun 80-250gb hard drives r in that range and u just add it + ur old drive so u dont have to re-install windows

Answer 4

could ba a virus or possibly a worm or trojan as they do more dammage to a computer than a virus, as well a virus can be dumped a trogan or worm attacks your hole system where as a virus only attatches itself to an alocated file, run your anti virus scan it will tell you better whats going on with your system,, hope its only a virus and not a trojan or a worm of some sort good luck ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,stinger