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RE: Hard Drive keeps filling up
From: "Alexander Suhovey" <asuhovey () mtu-net ru>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 04:18:17 +0400
Also, if you are running a machine that has MSCONFIG on it
just FYI: XP version of msconfig.exe happily runs on 2k.
-----Original Message----- From: Mark Hicks [mailto:lordhog () hotmail com] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 12:54 AM To: security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: RE: Hard Drive keeps filling up I would head on over to http://www.sysinternals.com and download some of their monitoring software ( Filemon, Process Explorer, ListDLLs etc... ) and see if you can find out which process has one of these files open in the directory where all the tmp files are. If you want to view the contents of the tmp file I would use HexWorkshop (http://www.hexworkshop.com) or HexEdit (http://www.expertcomsoft.com) to view the files just to take a look inside of them. Another items is to start shutting down processes from either Task Manager or the Services control panel one by one to see if you can find out what is filling of the files. Also, look in the two RUN keys in the registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run to see if you can find any program that shouldn't be starting up. Also, if you are running a machine that has MSCONFIG on it ( WinXP and I think some of the variants of Win9x have it also ) as it will list the startup processes. Mark Hicks -----Original Message----- From: Harris Samuel W PORT [mailto:HarrisSW () mail ports navy mil] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 11:09 AM To: security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: Hard Drive keeps filling up I have been having a problem for a week now and can't seem to detect
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Current thread:
- Hard Drive keeps filling up Harris Samuel W PORT (Sep 22)
- RE: Hard Drive keeps filling up matt willson (Sep 23)
- Re: Hard Drive keeps filling up Birl (Sep 23)
- RE: Hard Drive keeps filling up Joey Peloquin (Sep 23)
- Re: Hard Drive keeps filling up Brian Tomjack (brut) (Sep 23)
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- Re: Hard Drive keeps filling up Eric Brown (Sep 23)
- Re: Hard Drive keeps filling up Tony Preston (Sep 24)
- Re:Hard Drive keeps filling up Halverson, Chris (Sep 23)
- RE: Hard Drive keeps filling up Meidinger Chris (Sep 23)
- RE: Hard Drive keeps filling up Mark Hicks (Sep 23)
- RE: Hard Drive keeps filling up Alexander Suhovey (Sep 24)
- Re: Hard Drive keeps filling up nee cee (Sep 23)
- Re: Hard Drive keeps filling up David Lanagan (Sep 25)