virus-need help

**Ringo** · 02/12/2009, 12:29 PM

My hard drive keeps filling up when i empty it. Mcafee & skybot can find nothing. I've tried downloading some of the fices, but have a problem of either no space or it tells me that the software is not a vaid win32 application.

**Mr A** · 02/12/2009, 1:18 PM

I had a very similar issue recently. It wasn't a virus, but some badly misbehaving software. I would suggest you run msconfig and turn off everything at startup that you're not sure you 100% need immediately.

If this cures the issue you can then re-enable stuff gradually to diagnose exactly what is giving you the issue.

If you're really convinced it's a virus then maybe MS Onecare's online scanner could help. http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm

**dahamsta** · 02/12/2009, 2:26 PM

Use a hard drive visualiser to find where the errant files are:

http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&q=hard+drive+usage

adam

**Ringo** · 03/12/2009, 6:24 AM

Originally Posted by Mr A

I had a very similar issue recently. It wasn't a virus, but some badly misbehaving software. I would suggest you run msconfig and turn off everything at startup that you're not sure you 100% need immediately.

If this cures the issue you can then re-enable stuff gradually to diagnose exactly what is giving you the issue.

If you're really convinced it's a virus then maybe MS Onecare's online scanner could help. http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm

Ran the online scanner & seems to have done the trick

. Cheers!!