Re: Mystery file eating by system partition

Well something is writing the file. Right click on File and select
properties, any info? Do you use Symantec/Norton antivirus or
security suite? Try TaskManager and MSCONFIG to see if
you can figure out what is writing the file.

"Oliver Costich" <oc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:5gd645ld2tud10h70e58628sin30i32nq5@xxxxxxxxxx
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:05:45 -0700, "Spirit" <noone@localhost> wrote:

Look in Task Manager for something suspicious.

There are viruses that write huge files to consume space.
Scan your computer with several online virus programs.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=online+virus+scanners+free&aq=0&oq=online+virus+scanners+&aqi=g2

Already used several of these and they found nothing. If it were a
virus, I assume some of these would have the signature since it's been
around several weeks.

"Oliver Costich" <oc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:fqs545t8fed29opnd34n0q1uall2onqv1s@xxxxxxxxxx
Severl weeks ago, I got a warning that there was no more space on C:,
my system partition. Properties showed 0 free space. I tracked down
the problem to a file named mnc82DB.tmp, which was about 50GB. It was
in the folder users\owner\appdata\local\temp. I have no idea where it
came from and Google has no entries if I search on that file name.
Trying to delete it fails, saying that it is open in another program.
Rebooting and then deleting it fixes it....

...Temporarily. Today it came back. Same issues. It's very annoying
sice if I try to print something I will lose if I reboot, it won't do
it (0 free space). Another weirdness is that if I try to type
something into the Firefox Goggle engine, the letters are entered in
reverse order.

Anyone have any idea what in the world this is? The OS is Vista
Business x64 SP3.

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