nasvdt files - consuming disk space
Hi,
yesterday about 12:40, my father says that it cannot receive/read e-mail through outlook due a disk full error in a Windows XP Pro
I went to my computer and the free space at C: was 110Kb.
I moved the pst files for my father outlook that totalizes ~20Gb to drive E:.
At night after come from work I decided to defragment the drive C: to consolidate free space. Come to my surprise and the drive has only 200kb free. How this is possible if I moved the files and the source files gone from C:\documents and settings\user\Local Settings\application Data\microsoft\Outlook.
Then I moved my mother e-mails that frees up another 20Gb. I keep pc turned on at night defragmenting the disk.
Today before leaving home at morning I had the 20.1Gb free. At 13h I come to pc and have 400kb free.
Now I decided to search for files modified between March 29 and today March 30 and found 4 or 5 files in c:\windows\temp with name nasvdt-000000xx.eml where xx is a 2 digit number.
nasvdt-00000012.eml with about 21Gb created at March 30 at 12:00
nasvdt-00000022.eml with about 159Gb
nasvdt-00000027.eml with about 0Kb created at March 29 at 11:59
nasvdt-00000028.eml with about 0kb created at March 29 at 11:59
nasvdt-00000032.eml with about 24Gb created at March 29 at 13:54 after I have moved the pst files to drive E: and going to work
It appears to be a outlook express file. I don't have configgured the outlook express and to prove this I open it and says to configure e-mail account.
Now I have deleted the 159Gb for obvious reason.
My fathers using only microsoft outlook 2007
Today afrer lunch I have removed the Microsoft search 4.0 to avoid slowdown and to see if was it that occupies all space. I didnt knew these files. Only now I made the search and find it using windows search.
What is this?
More strange is that the file opens the outlook express and display an e-mail with a foto with 300kb. whre is the rest of space? It has windows XP SP3 that has the update for jpeg files that appeared in WU before Windows xp sp1.
yesterday about 12:40, my father says that it cannot receive/read e-mail through outlook due a disk full error in a Windows XP Pro
I went to my computer and the free space at C: was 110Kb.
I moved the pst files for my father outlook that totalizes ~20Gb to drive E:.
At night after come from work I decided to defragment the drive C: to consolidate free space. Come to my surprise and the drive has only 200kb free. How this is possible if I moved the files and the source files gone from C:\documents and settings\user\Local Settings\application Data\microsoft\Outlook.
Then I moved my mother e-mails that frees up another 20Gb. I keep pc turned on at night defragmenting the disk.
Today before leaving home at morning I had the 20.1Gb free. At 13h I come to pc and have 400kb free.
Now I decided to search for files modified between March 29 and today March 30 and found 4 or 5 files in c:\windows\temp with name nasvdt-000000xx.eml where xx is a 2 digit number.
nasvdt-00000012.eml with about 21Gb created at March 30 at 12:00
nasvdt-00000022.eml with about 159Gb
nasvdt-00000027.eml with about 0Kb created at March 29 at 11:59
nasvdt-00000028.eml with about 0kb created at March 29 at 11:59
nasvdt-00000032.eml with about 24Gb created at March 29 at 13:54 after I have moved the pst files to drive E: and going to work
It appears to be a outlook express file. I don't have configgured the outlook express and to prove this I open it and says to configure e-mail account.
Now I have deleted the 159Gb for obvious reason.
My fathers using only microsoft outlook 2007
Today afrer lunch I have removed the Microsoft search 4.0 to avoid slowdown and to see if was it that occupies all space. I didnt knew these files. Only now I made the search and find it using windows search.
What is this?
More strange is that the file opens the outlook express and display an e-mail with a foto with 300kb. whre is the rest of space? It has windows XP SP3 that has the update for jpeg files that appeared in WU before Windows xp sp1.
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That remover doesn't find the w32.nimda virus in that computer.
I had installed ad-aware 9.0.2 and start ran about wednesday 13h.
Thursday 8h30 it find nothing after 20h running.
At 13h it has 3 objects detected. 2 double click and the other I can't remember. Something like admtd.
It removed and I had 159Gb free at disk. I think that it doesn't run at 12h like before.
Then I delete the other 48Gb that left on disk to see if ad-aware detects anything. NOw after 2 days I had 202 Gb free of disk space.
I had installed ad-aware 9.0.2 and start ran about wednesday 13h.
Thursday 8h30 it find nothing after 20h running.
At 13h it has 3 objects detected. 2 double click and the other I can't remember. Something like admtd.
It removed and I had 159Gb free at disk. I think that it doesn't run at 12h like before.
Then I delete the other 48Gb that left on disk to see if ad-aware detects anything. NOw after 2 days I had 202 Gb free of disk space.
ASKER
That was not that version but then running ad-aware it gives to right direction of problem.
In 20 years of PC computing I never seen a virus so hungry as that....
In 20 years of PC computing I never seen a virus so hungry as that....
Glad I was able to point you in the right direction. Nice work!
regards...
regards...
ASKER
I'm running the removal tool in the infected computer