Virus Or something!!!

[aniruddhaghosh27]

I am unable to make out whether it is virus or not, the problem is that whenever i am connected to internet, the C drive of my computer is starts filling up. I am sticking to surfing only, no downloads still it is filling up my windows drive.

 

[sudhir_3193]

Update the antivirus and scan your pc

 

[rijinpk1]

download bitdefender rescue disk, make a bootable usb, boot via usb and scan your whole pc.

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and you posted this query in wrong section.

 

[SaiyanGoku]

Open Resource Monitor
select Network tab
check which programs are using up the bandwidth.

 

[topgear]

I am unable to make out whether it is virus or not, the problem is that whenever i am connected to internet, the C drive of my computer is starts filling up. I am sticking to surfing only, no downloads still it is filling up my windows drive.

can you check exactly which files are filling up the C drive as it may be browser cache. Anyway, use CCleaner to clear any temporary files and use windirstat to find out exactly which files are eating out the free space.

 

[Flash]

Are you updating "Windows Updates" regularly?
Coz, the old updates are kept as backups.,.

 

[meetdilip]

Most likely [MENTION=142062]Flash[/MENTION] has a point.

 

[Minion]

Yeah turn off windows update.

 

[eureka]

Yeah, should be Windows Updates.

 

[harshilsharma63]

Yeah turn off windows update.

Why turn off updates? You can simple remove the backup files using disk cleanup.

 

[eureka]

Why turn off updates? You can simple remove the backup files using disk cleanup.

Removing backup files won't notify you again for updates?

 

[harshilsharma63]

Removing backup files won't notify you again for updates?

Nope. When you install updates the older files are saved just in case you want to perform a system restore. Removeing backup files removes these old files. It doesn't uninstalls the updates.

 

[eureka]

Nope. When you install updates the older files are saved just in case you want to perform a system restore. Removeing backup files removes these old files. It doesn't uninstalls the updates.

Thanks Harsh, deleted the backup files, it was taking around 650 MB, deleted some error reporting files too. Do you anything else on C drive which could be deleted safely? Mine is pretty low on storage too, even after deleting the above

 

[harshilsharma63]

Thanks Harsh. Do you anything else on C drive which could be deleted safely? Mine is pretty low on storage too

> It's Harshil Sharma, not Harsh.

> If you do not use hibernate feature then you can disable it and save about 3 GB os disk space.Run this command in command prompt with admin rights- 'powercgf.exe /hibernate off'

> Run disk cleanup. Open start menu adn type 'disk cleanup'. It will remove all junk. Finally run CCleaner.

 

[eureka]

> It's Harshil Sharma, not Harsh.

> If you do not use hibernate feature then you can disable it and save about 3 GB os disk space.Run this command in command prompt with admin rights- 'powercgf.exe /hibernate off'

> Run disk cleanup. Open start menu adn type 'disk cleanup'. It will remove all junk. Finally run CCleaner.

Sorry mate, for wrongly saying your name, didn't notice the User ID carefully.

Hibernate? LOL. I don't even know what that feature does. I however put my desktop to sleep a lot, I hope that Hibernate has nothing to do with that. Will disable that surely.

Okay, will run CCleaner, have it installed for a long time, but never really used it.

 

[Flash]

Scan your C-drive for large files (lots of utilities are available), and see which file/folder has highest.
If you're sure of the files, delete those. Sometimes quarantined files by AV, takes up large size.

 

[SaiyanGoku]

Also, delete old system restore points. that'll free up much amount of space.

 

[Sarika CoolGirl]

CCleaner is the best for this task, and absolutely free of cost