4 GB within a couple hours

**Red_Lizard2** · 04-02-09, 07:59 PM

anyone got an idea why 4 gb of space would be used up on my C drive within a couple hours without me installing anything, or basically doing nothing but browsing the internet?

I need to figure out what it is so i know if i need to scan my computer or just run CCcleaner to clean out some stuff.

**~~Cecil900~~** · 04-02-09, 08:02 PM

Do you have something like xfire running in the background? Xfire can randomly start downloading patches.

You might also want to run a virus scan, and run a few registry cleaners. You can also go into your hard drive properties and hit disk cleanup, and it should give you a break down of stuff you can delete and how much of it can be deleted.

You might also want to run a defrag, sometimes a fragmented drive can turn up a false reading on space left. Your hard drive could also be just straight up flipping out and reporting stuff it doesnt see. This happens alot because when the hard drive is reading data from the disk, it gets ALOT of errors(we're talking thousands a second). And there is a little chip on there called the ECC which is correcting the errors on the fly, and alot of times miss readings can come up because of this chip simply malfunctioning.

**Red_Lizard2** · 04-02-09, 08:39 PM

so far ran a quickie scan with MBAM which came up with this

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.28
Database version: 1171
Windows 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1

4/2/2009 6:26:37 PM
mbam-log-2009-04-02 (18-26-37).txt

Scan type: Quick Scan
Objects scanned: 45492
Time elapsed: 4 minute(s), 20 second(s)

Memory Processes Infected: 0
Memory Modules Infected: 0
Registry Keys Infected: 1
Registry Values Infected: 0
Registry Data Items Infected: 0
Folders Infected: 0
Files Infected: 0

Memory Processes Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Memory Modules Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Registry Keys Infected:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{9afb8248-617f-460d-9366-d71cdeda3179} (Adware.MyWebSearch) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.

Registry Values Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Registry Data Items Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Folders Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Files Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Going full to see if it can find anymore damage. Appears i must of gotten hit by a Drive-by when trying to connect to espn earlier (sent me to sound read rated site according to WoT)

So far only thing in the 2 hours that SHOULD have been added was a new virus definition which i checked my anti-virus folder and things look fine in there, nothing modified that would cause the super jump.

So far got back about 2 gbs, deleting a couple programs and cleaning the recycle bin. But haven't found the culprit for the huge jump

**bust331** · 04-02-09, 08:43 PM

FUCK, CONFLICKER STRIKES AGAIN!!!!!!!

**-Sauso-** · 04-02-09, 08:43 PM

go to disk cleanup delete your old restore points and shadow copies.....that can take up a lot of space..did mine the other day and got back 34 gigs

**~~Cecil900~~** · 04-02-09, 08:47 PM

Originally Posted by bust331

FUCK, CONFLICKER STRIKES AGAIN!!!!!!!

Thanks for that point of useless input. The man had an infected registry value that was infected by MyWebSearch which has been known for years.

**bust331** · 04-02-09, 08:48 PM

Originally Posted by Cecil900

Originally Posted by bust331

FUCK, CONFLICKER STRIKES AGAIN!!!!!!!

Thanks for that point of useless input. The man had an infected registry value that was infected by MyWebSearch which has been known for years.

Chill out, it was a joke.

**Red_Lizard2** · 04-02-09, 08:49 PM

haha nah, sadly this time can't blame conficker

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Just looked at though disk cleanup told me it only give me 68 megs back, i've jumped from 2.03 back down to 5.94 gb (around the same it was earlier today) so looked like just needing a little spring cleaning.

i'll have to go back and check the restores and see if that opens up some more space (not that i need it, C partition on my Novo is just for windows files mostly)