Not hidden files, thought of that and un-hid them, they only account for a few percent of the hard drive space in use.
-Max -----Original Message----- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Scott Ritchey Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 3:12 PM To: 'Mercedes Discussion List' Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT infected computer? Avira (pay version but free one avail too) and Spybot. I also use System Mechanic for general maintenance. Avira has a feature where you can burn an image to CD (or usb stick) and boot a a Linux version of Avira from the CD (or usb) to scan the PC. This bypasses any mayware that might be on your hard drive. Syatem Mechanic deletes junk files routinely as part of the auto scan. Could your problem be hidden Windows files? Is your Explorer set to display hidden files? Scott -----Original Message----- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Max Dillon Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 8:37 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: [MBZ] OT infected computer? I'm suspicious that something has infected my home computer. What AV tools do you guys recommend for cleaning up? I really don't want to reload the OS. Hard disc has recently become nearly full, 90+ GB used out of 100 available. Hard drive light was on almost continuously, but computer performance didn't seem too bad, for a five year old laptop. Using windows explorer, it appears that I can only account for about 60 GB on the HD; 35 GB for users and a little over 20 for the windows system. Yesterday I made a concerted effort to clean up the HD. Deleted a bunch of software I didn't need, used the disk clean up utility and also defrag. Had the disk size down to 82 GB or less, HD light back to normal behavior. This a.m., disk size is back to 92 GB! -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
