space sucker 4000

Hi, people who are smarter than me!(everyone)

TL;DR version
Are there any good programs that can show files that are being added to my computer, maliciously or not?

My computer seems to reach critically low disk space often. Every time I make space it seems to be filled up rather fast, but I don't beleive I am the one adding the files.

I didn't like the TL;DR version.

How do I shot swap file?
Get a real OS.

Check your OS. If it's vISTA, then it's time to downgrade

I enjoy your complete admission of my superiority. If you're clearing more than a gig and it's filling up without any input from you, you've probably got something interesting going on. check for virus's and spyware, and also make sure you don't have something like a backup utility (norton, etc.) or file downloader (azuerus etc.) eating up your space.- if you have to, go into safe mode and check the programs running there against the ones running normally. you can google the filenames and find out what each running process is doing.

If you're clearing less than a gig, you're probably just eating up the space by surfing the web- clear your cache and change your settings.

Oh, and the thing that can show files being added to your computer is called a firewall. find a good one, and then curse it as it keeps you from doing anything without fucking with your port forwarding and permissions.

I can't imagine how someone can so little about their computer system to find one day that he has run out of space and has no fucking clue why. That's like driving a car without knowing you have to refuel every once in a while, for fuck's sake.


>>5
>check for virus's and spyware
The guy will probably run these checks from the same system. If it is infected, these checks won't be effective because malware has its ways of hiding from the scanners if they're running.

>the thing that can show files being added to your computer is called a firewall
Yeah. Are you sure you know what a firewall is?

>>5
Oh, and the thing that can show files being added to your computer is called a firewall.
You're a fucking idiot.

>>6
If it is infected, these checks won't be effective because malware has its ways of hiding from the scanners if they're running.
Most malware doesn't. There wouldn't be any malware scanners otherwise, now would there?

>>7
True, the large majority of malware probably isn't sophisticated enough to use this sort of rootkit functionality. But there's a reason why things like Knoppicillin exist. It IS possible for malware to hide from the scanner if run on an infected system. And just running it like that anyways and hoping for the best is incredibly bad practice. Might as well not use any scanner at all and hope the malware - if there - doesn't do anything malicious.

OP here,

>Check your OS. If it's vISTA, then it's time to downgrade

No sir, using XP now.

>I can't imagine how someone can so little about their computer system to find one day that he has run out of space and has no fucking clue why.

See, this is why I'm worried. I haven't done anything to take up this space! This morning I had 950mb of free space. I surfed the internet and played a little vidya, and before I left the house I checked again: 950mb. Cleared the browser cache, no programs were running.

I come back home and there is 500KB of fucking space left. What the hell happened? I look it over and as far as I can tell nothing was added. I have an antivirus program running, but it doesn't see anything. I dunno what the fuck is going on?

Probably just some guys storing CP and warez on your computer for others to download.

Just check all your directories - sorry, "folders" - and add up the space in use. Then check the subfolders and so on, until you can determine what uses up your space and decide if you can clear (some of) it.

If the numbers somehow don't add up to the total space in use you can be pretty sure that you have some kind of rootkit.

Usually, when space on a windows XP/2000 computer, it's because you've got "offline files" enabled.  I can't remember exactly where it stores this, but it's somewhere in the windows directory.

What it is is that your computer is mirroring all the files on some network share onto your local drive, such that you can access them when you're not on the network.  This is a stupid feature, because large files are usually stored on shares so that they don't take up space locally, and small files that you want to store remotely tend to be updated often, such that if you try to update them in your cache, your version will be overwritten later.

I guess they were just trying to avoid their tech support department having to explain to people that you need to be on your network to be able to access certain files.

I'm not at my XP machine right now, but it's easy enough to disable.  It's somewhere in the options for explorer.

Once you've done that, reboot and find the folder under C:\Windows that's taking up a ton of space and delete it (if it doesn't automatically, I seem to remember it not, but it's been a long time since I've used windows)

>>11
System32

Did you check your swap file's size?  Do you even know whether is is System Managed or set to a maximum?  Also, doesn't your PC run really slow when you run out of HDD space, and thus virtual memory?  Also, install Ubuntu, it's simple.  Reboot if you are a game addict.

dont be so damn jew about it and buy another hd, if we are counting mb of disc space we have aproblem here