Windows Worrying Pc problem..

I keep having my hard drive filled up with something and I have no idea what. I get a low disk space warning so I cleared around 3gigs last night. I just got home from college and I have less than 200KB spare, this keeps happening. Is there any chance some hacker is using me as a storage for files? if so, how can I find out and stop it?

 

just checked again and I have 0kb space free, someone help!

 

check for virus', spyware and trojans, and get a firewall if you don't already have one.

 

will do, but in the meantime is there anyway of monitoring when this data is being transfered and where it's being saved?

 

you on XP?

 

yeah, I guess i could ctrl+alt+delete and look at network monitoring but that doesn't tell me where it's being stored :-\

 

http://www.chem.wisc.edu/~network/firewall/firewall.htm
For a start, do that.

Search for files that have beendified/created in the lasts x days and have a look...

 

i've already got the firewall turned on but I'll take a search for files now.

 

use a virusscanner now
and try eventviewer (win 2000 i do not know if you have it in XP)

 

You can use Filemon on WinXP to monitor hard disk activities.

 

I second DeX..


http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/utilities.shtml

you can get filemon there.. they have some usefull freeware.. there is regmon also that monitors all hits to the registry..

-scoob8000

 

and / or check your virtual memory settings. windows might be using up most of your HDD with its pagefile.