Disappearing disk space

I had 30GB available on my HD last night, this morning
the system culdn't logme in to my profile; the hard drive
was 100% full.

I cleared 160MB and checked the disk for errors. Ten
minutes later they disappeard. I searched for files for
the last week, there nothing unsual of size. I recuced
the size of the vertual memory from 10GB to 500MB. This
did show any availble space at all.

I run Windows XP professional, I scanned for virus by the
latest NAI stiger, that was negative.

Has anybody seen this problem?

Sarah
Wed Jan 28 20:26:55 CST 2004

NB writes:
>-----Original Message-----
>I had 30GB available on my HD last night, this morning
>the system culdn't logme in to my profile; the hard
drive
>was 100% full.
>
>I cleared 160MB and checked the disk for errors. Ten
>minutes later they disappeard. I searched for files for
>the last week, there nothing unsual of size. I recuced
>the size of the vertual memory from 10GB to 500MB. This
>did show any availble space at all.
>
>I run Windows XP professional, I scanned for virus by
the
>latest NAI stiger, that was negative.
>
>Has anybody seen this problem?
>.

Stinger was never intended to find/fix all
infections. Try a free online scan from the Trend folks
(called Housecall)
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp

-Sarah
/_\ This message transmitted on 100% recycled electrons.

Karl
Thu Jan 29 05:22:11 CST 2004

Did you try searching for files over a certain size, like 10000 KB or
10000000 B?

Could be a hacker put an illicit FTP server on your computer. If this is
the case, see here:

http://securityadmin.info/faq.asp#ftpfolder
http://securityadmin.info/faq.asp#hacked
[the instructions above should usually help you find evidence of hacking if
any, especially the step where you run Vision or Fport from
www.foundstone.com/knowledge ]
http://securityadmin.info/faq.asp#harden

If this is the case, you should make sure you have a firewall [www.kerio.com
and www.sygate.com are two free firewalls], get all your patches from
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com, make sure the IIS FTP server is not
installed under Start, Settings, Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs,
Add/Remove Windows components], and if you need to run an FTP server, make
sure the anonymous IUSR account never ever has both read and write
permission to any one folder.


"NB" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:669201c3e5fb$183786b0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I had 30GB available on my HD last night, this morning
> the system culdn't logme in to my profile; the hard drive
> was 100% full.
>
> I cleared 160MB and checked the disk for errors. Ten
> minutes later they disappeard. I searched for files for
> the last week, there nothing unsual of size. I recuced
> the size of the vertual memory from 10GB to 500MB. This
> did show any availble space at all.
>
> I run Windows XP professional, I scanned for virus by the
> latest NAI stiger, that was negative.
>
> Has anybody seen this problem?

statesman34
Thu Jan 29 14:20:52 CST 2004

How many times have you used system restore. Under disk
clean up you can get rid of the many previous sys
restores that are on your system and it will stay with
the current restore point
>-----Original Message-----
>I had 30GB available on my HD last night, this morning
>the system culdn't logme in to my profile; the hard
drive
>was 100% full.
>
>I cleared 160MB and checked the disk for errors. Ten
>minutes later they disappeard. I searched for files for
>the last week, there nothing unsual of size. I recuced
>the size of the vertual memory from 10GB to 500MB. This
>did show any availble space at all.
>
>I run Windows XP professional, I scanned for virus by
the
>latest NAI stiger, that was negative.
>
>Has anybody seen this problem?
>.
>