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Posted by Cribby on Oct-28-2005 19:35:

Hungry Virus

I've been hit today with a really weird virus/trojan that keeps eating my default hard drive space...every two seconds it decreases my space by 2 mgs :/

any fix?

Posted by Ex-Man on Oct-28-2005 19:42:

Yeah mine pc has been slowing down for some reason I dont know why..
this sucks!!

Posted by AwakenedAddict on Oct-28-2005 19:47:

Re: Hungry Virus

Posted by Cribby on Oct-28-2005 19:51:

no .exe is found...basically it eats my space until I have 1 MB left...and then it reverts back to my original amount and starts again....aye aye aye

Posted by AwakenedAddict on Oct-28-2005 20:02:

Check the processes tab in the task manager, it should be there if it's running on your comp.

Posted by infinity HiGH on Oct-28-2005 20:05:

Get NOD32 Anti-virus. It's one of the best anti-virus programs out there, and uses very little of your computers resources.

I hope it helps.

Posted by Cribby on Oct-28-2005 20:18:

Like I said...nothing is listed, absolutely nothing that isn't usually there. :/

Posted by Cribby on Oct-28-2005 20:21:

It stopped...I will run a virus check before it starts again grrr...I'm already suffering from internal viruses on my hd...

Posted by Protosis on Oct-28-2005 20:44:

Are you sure your not running something that's eating up your hard drive space through virtual memory?

Posted by Cribby on Oct-28-2005 20:51:

quote:
Originally posted by Protosis
Are you sure your not running something that's eating up your hard drive space through virtual memory?

I am %100 sure

Posted by DigitalMP on Oct-28-2005 21:02:

1. Download HiJackThis - http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/
2. Run it (it's a running process analyzer), and make sure you create a log file (no need to install)
3. Leave the HJT window open
4. Paste the log file's contents here - http://hjt.iamnotageek.com/
5. Parse the log file's contents to see what fucked up shit you have running, and get rid of what it tells you to by deleting lines in the HJT window.

Posted by DigitalMP on Oct-28-2005 21:05:

it also wouldn't hurt to go to trendmicro.com and get an online vscan.

Posted by rabbitjoker on Oct-28-2005 21:08:

quote:
Originally posted by infinity HiGH
Get NOD32 Anti-virus. It's one of the best anti-virus programs out there, and uses very little of your computers resources.

Best product hands-down.

Posted by DigiNut on Oct-28-2005 22:06:

Who the hell gets a computer virus these days?

Posted by Nytehawk on Oct-28-2005 22:50:

Re: Hungry Virus

quote:
Originally posted by Crib
I've been hit today with a really weird virus/trojan that keeps eating my default hard drive space...every two seconds it decreases my space by 2 mgs :/

any fix?

Well Crib, I had a trojan horse like 1 day ago, and it was malicious as hell, as I couldnt connect to ANY Anti-Virus websites or Download or Install any. So I had to re-format the HDD and re-install windows... I know it sucks, but... The trojan I had affected my csrss.exe file Running in task manager processes and also killed my windows registry. So let me know if its the same one or not, cause I just got that virus like a day ago, its an actual worm. But Anyway, let me know...

Nytehawk

Posted by Cosmic Fur on Oct-28-2005 22:57:

format c:\

it's your only salvation.

Posted by Cribby on Oct-29-2005 00:09:

Re: Re: Hungry Virus

quote:
Originally posted by Nytehawk
Well Crib, I had a trojan horse like 1 day ago, and it was malicious as hell, as I couldnt connect to ANY Anti-Virus websites or Download or Install any. So I had to re-format the HDD and re-install windows... I know it sucks, but... The trojan I had affected my csrss.exe file Running in task manager processes and also killed my windows registry. So let me know if its the same one or not, cause I just got that virus like a day ago, its an actual worm. But Anyway, let me know...

Nytehawk

No, it's not the same worm. Thx for the help everyone; I already use NOD32 Anti-virus...so my only solution is to dump this hd...hehe been wanting an excuse to get rid of it for a while...300 gb hd sounds nice

Posted by DigitalMP on Oct-29-2005 03:31:

Did you run HiJackThis?

Posted by Cribby on Oct-29-2005 16:28:

quote:
Originally posted by DigitalMP
Did you run HiJackThis?

first link didn't work.

Posted by TheVrk on Oct-29-2005 16:34:

quote:
Originally posted by infinity HiGH
Get NOD32 Anti-virus. It's one of the best anti-virus programs out there,

Is it really THAT good? Never heard be4

Posted by rabbitjoker on Oct-29-2005 16:45:

quote:
Originally posted by TheVrk
Is it really THAT good?

Yes. Best available.

Posted by joinT on Oct-29-2005 17:22:

anandtech computer security thread..

http://forums.anandtech.com/message...7&enterthread=y

lots of good apps/advice there

Posted by drgoodvibe on Oct-29-2005 17:28:

quote:
Originally posted by infinity HiGH
Get NOD32 Anti-virus. It's one of the best anti-virus programs out there, and uses very little of your computers resources.

I hope it helps.

this is good news! my norton anti-virus is a huge resource hog..

Posted by TheVrk on Oct-29-2005 21:10:

Thx Jimmy/RJ