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Fahye ([personal profile] fahye) wrote2008-03-16 05:57 pm
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oh bollocks

So...Fabian just died. Although by 'died' I mean 'I shut him down just as death was imminent', because there's some kind of virus on my C: drive that just keeps eating and eating and eating disc space even when I'm not saving anything or doing anything, and right at this moment my 50GB hard drive has about 20GB of visible files on it and another 30GB of invisible seemingly self-replicating SHIT that is threatening to crash my system because there's just. no. room.

I'm not starting him up again until I know what's wrong, because at the rate things are going, the disc will fill itself to the point of crashing within ten minutes. I can work from other computers in terms of downloading lecture notes, and I can get my dad's computer guy to have a look at it when I go home on Thursday, but fuck. Has anyone ever encountered a problem like this?

*sulks*

*works on fic, which was luckily emailed to self just in time*
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[identity profile] sainfoin-fields.livejournal.com 2008-03-16 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
Wow, that sounds horrifying. No help but I hope you get it fixed! D:

[identity profile] -leareth.livejournal.com 2008-03-16 08:27 am (UTC)(link)
Do you have any idea what virus it is, did you virus detection systems pick up anything weird you can google to identify it?
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[identity profile] fahye.livejournal.com 2008-03-16 08:47 am (UTC)(link)
Nope -- I was running a virus scan when the drop in disc space started accelerating, but I shut it down so I could get the computer turned off in time :(
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[identity profile] wickedtrue.livejournal.com 2008-03-16 10:01 am (UTC)(link)
What anti-virus do you use?
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[identity profile] rymenhild.livejournal.com 2008-03-16 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Gah, that's horrible. I have no useful suggestions, but I wish you luck with fixing it.

[identity profile] profound-poppy.livejournal.com 2008-03-21 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
hey, actually I have had that problem to my laptop too...and yeah, i was really stupid and didn't really worry much about the progressive slowing/spasming of my comp...until yeah all the memory died and the computer died out (conveniently 2 days before my research project was due). Thankfully this awesome computer guy managed to retrieve everything and got rid of the damn virus. So it worked out well for me...so I reckon you should be right too :) (hopefully )
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