file eating monster: virus, XP or hard drive
Something is eating away at my files on my new Maxtor 160gb in this particular folder.
Subfolders in Undecoded Folder:
art
ebook
home_video
jokes
movies
mainstream
various_clips
web_content
Subfolders in Various Clips:
Commercials
Jackass
Punkd
Sports
First, all of the folders in Various_Clips disappeard. The folder only contained 2 files, I never saw before, that had names containing special symbols. They were 1.8 & 3.2 gb. I assume those 2 files were a conglomeration of the folders that used to be in Various Clips.
The next day, 3 of the subfolders in Undecoded, including Various_Clips, were converted to 32k files with the same name. They have no file extension. Opening them in notepad only reveals garbage.
Free Space has not changed, so I assume my files are still there.
Now here have been my actions:
1. Norton Virus found and deleted W32.HLLW.Winur.B
http://securityresponse.symantec.com...w.winur.b.html
2. Defraged hard drive using XP, which according to the graph, was necessary.
3. Norton virus no longer found viruses.
4. Norton Disk Doctor diagnosed and made repairs.
When I booted into WinXP after repairs, another folder in Undecoded was converted into a 32k file, so it seems as though the problem persists.
Norton System Info sees a Found.001 folder in the root of the drive. It has many File.00#.chk files in it.
ANY IDEAS WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED???????
Re: file eating monster: virus, XP or hard drive
Remove Norton would be a good start!
And use Kaspersky Anti-Virus -)
Re: file eating monster: virus, XP or hard drive
I've found http://www.malwarebytes.org/ to be good in the past at finding some annoying little trojan that seems to come back by nefarious means.
Re: file eating monster: virus, XP or hard drive
...2003 thread ressurection!!! :crazy::telephone::crazy:
Re: file eating monster: virus, XP or hard drive
Quote:
Originally Posted by
sleepyhead
...2003 thread ressurection!!! :crazy::telephone::crazy:
Hehe I didn't even notice. :rolleyes: Is that a hexus record? 6 years!
Re: file eating monster: virus, XP or hard drive
Unbelievable!!:surprised::surprised::surprised:
And the thread title looked like one of those hoax emails too...
Re: file eating monster: virus, XP or hard drive
Suprised this hasn't already been suggested. Install http://www.safer-networking.org/en/home/index.html update it to the latest definitions, immunize and run a system scan. This will detect any virus, trojan or spyware and remove it. You might need to boot into safe mode and run the scan if it cannot remove some of the found problems!
Re: file eating monster: virus, XP or hard drive
Re: file eating monster: virus, XP or hard drive
Looks like 4444405 has finally reached 20 posts for his free shipping. An epic finish.