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I will try to offer more info as I can, but basically my problem is this:
My PC has begun to run a bit balkily; I ran spybot-what usually take 2-3 minutes took 16 or so.
I ran adaware-usually scans 57k files, this time 95k+ files.
Seems to me I'm picking up some...uh....crap.
I have P4, 384Mg RAM, WinME (I know, I know).
I am not overly knowledgeable about computors.
Any ideas? :huh:
You've run a virus scan?
how did u manage to get a p4 and win ME? lol.. but yea run a viruscan.
Read this ;)
v scan boss v scan :(Quote:
Originally posted by j2k4@12 September 2003 - 15:14
I will try to offer more info as I can, but basically my problem is this:
My PC has begun to run a bit balkily; I ran spybot-what usually take 2-3 minutes took 16 or so.
I ran adaware-usually scans 57k files, this time 95k+ files.
Seems to me I'm picking up some...uh....crap.
I have P4, 384Mg RAM, WinME (I know, I know).
I am not overly knowledgeable about computors.
Any ideas? :huh:
Mea maxima culpa, your lordship.Quote:
Now-
How about some help? :huh:
Now it turns out my firewall and a.v. facilities (both McAfee) are somehow compromised also; I've tried to reinstall, but the DL locks up partway through.
Are you running kazaa? It may help identify a file creating/sharing virus if it's present. The number of shares would be very much higher than you had it set up for.
In win XP/NT a file named system32.exe would be present. In win9x, I'm not sure what variant you'd look for.
Possible expanation...
From this week's LangaList.
"9) Sudden Drop In Disk Space
Hi Fred, I am a self-employed financial advisor with a keen
interest using technology to run my business efficiently.
The other day, I was getting the LOW Disk Space warning and
didn't know what was going on. So I started deleting stuff and
doing some clean out but the warning would not go away and my
hard disk would not stop chugging along.
I did a google search and this is what I came up with.
http://www.computing.net/security/ww...orum/6248.html
I think a lot of people are experiencing this problem.--- Rick Shrier
Thanks, Rick.
Other readers have reported similar issues, including nearly constant
CPU use--- something eating their CPU cycles *and* disk space at a
prodigious rate.
But as the above and following links indicate, the common thread seems
to be an out-of-control process inside McAfee that is supposed to stop
Worms:
http://www.google.com/search?q=mcvsescn%2Eexe
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&...exe&sa=N&tab=wg
Amazingly, the McAfee site has no search function--- only canned FAQs---
so I have no way to search this further. The user reports, above, which
include paraphrasing of conversations with McAfee tech support, are
probably the best-available information so far.
If you're using McAfee, it might be a good idea to check the above, and
watch for this problem, to ensure you don't end up with disk-space or
performance issues, too.
Boy, this shit ALWAYS happens when I'm f**ked for time!
Thanks, guys-be back with some results as soon as possible. ;)