RE: Hard Drive keeps filling up

["Alexander Suhovey" <asuhovey () mtu-net ru>]

> 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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