full-disclosure - Is this a Virus?

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Date: Thu Dec 29 18:52:13 2005
From: michael.holstein at csuohio.edu (Michael Holstein)
Subject: Is this a Virus?

> When I reboot my computer I have 2 GB space. After about 4 hours of 
> plain web browsing, I get a low space message. The space left is 1 MB.
> Something keeps on filling up my hard drive when my machine is on. How 
> do I figure out what? Anyone heard of this

Um .. this is a bit O/T for full-disclosure, but here goes :

Have you checked the amount of space reserved for your browser cache? In 
the Microsoft world, this is typically set to 10% of a drive's size (not 
free space .. physical size). Go into the properties tab of Internet 
Explorer and set the cache to 1mb, clear out what's in there, and start 
anew.

/mike.