Virus info!

[Jason Spatafore]

On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 08:11 -0700, mike enriquez wrote:
> Linux or winlow is not a important as why would a hard drive fill up.
> Whatever is causing this is very well hidden. I would imagine this could 
> happen in any OS.
> Thanks
> Mike

I made a funny. Won't engage in the whole debate that is being proposed.

In Windows, bring up task manager...what's running? Open regedit and
search the following keys...anything suspicious?
HKEY-> Local Machine -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows -> Run
HKEY-> Local Machine -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows -> Run
Services
HKEY-> Local Machine -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows -> RunOnce
HKEY-> Current User -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows -> Run
HKEY-> Current User -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows -> Run Services
HKEY-> Current User -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows -> RunOnce

Click on start - run - services.msc

Any odd services there?

Download spybot and run it...any spyware eating your system?
Download autoruns and check it...any suspicious entries there?

Run chkdisk /r and allow a full disk scan to take place. Any lost
clusters? 

When done, do a defrag to see if you can clear up space due to
organization of disk.

There are many places to check. This could be a real intensive process
and will take up your memorial day weekend.

Yes, something like this can happen to any machine...this past week, I
had a situation where I filled up the root partition and my fstab file
got corrupted. That was a 2 day problem. 

The difference is: I DID IT, not something else. Try all those items
though. It will take awhile but you gotta see what is really going on.