Help My HD is shrinking!

[afterglow]

I don't know what caused it but this is the case. My browser was hijacked by a spyware callled gocybersearch and i installed a spyware removal to get rid of that. It was supposedly deleted already as it was detected by my spyware removal but when i re-started my computer, the spysearch site still occupied half of my default browser. I went to the registry and deleted it again but it still propagates. I used another spyware removal but the result was the same.

Now come another problem, my hd is shrinking. It has 20 Gig of storage and only 8 gig is being used which means there's more space but when i installed the spyware removals, they've shrinked my HD to 0. I kept on deleting files and i'm seeing more storage but after a few minutes, it would again shrink back to 0. I uninstalled both the spyware removals because i thought they're causing this but then they didn't helped. My HD is still shrinking to 0. I need help now to fix this problem. Anyone? I was wondering if i'm infected by a more vicious virus.

Help!

[Velocd]

My network job at my school deals with fixing dorm users computer problems like this.

Easy solution? Reformat, reinstall.

I suppose you should try Lavasoft's Adaware and Norton Antivirus 2004, if you haven't already. They're the best. Make sure to update both programs before running their scans, otherwise it's rather pointless. For Norton you should set it to delete, rather than repair. For Adaware, under the options page enable all "Scanning settings", and under the tweak page, go to the "cleaning engine" node and enable "automatically try to unregister objects prior to deletion."

None of this is guaranteed to work, and in the most severe situations I've come across, that sound like yours, I just recommended the user to reformat. At least everything is clean when you start.

Get to that Easy CD Creator software and make some backups of important data.

[afterglow]

thanks for the response. thought about reformat and reinstall but i can't make a backup of my files coz there's no more space for creating a backup pic for the cdrw creator.

is there a way i can re-install and still keep all my installed sofware and files?

afteglow

[Dean C]

I'd suggest installing ad-aware, spybot search and destroy and AVG antivirus

[colicab-d]

Dean your a man after my own heart i use the above 3 and about 3 dyas ago my pc was comprimised by spyware that sent ad after ad to my dtop since then ive removed about 50+ ad/spyware related items from the pc.

Its amazing what can happen thru the net or an unexpected click of a yes button

[Dean C]

Well furthermore I was at home ill today and took the time to catch up on homeworks and do extra revision whilst installing about every free ad-removal program I could find. I found this one which works especially well:

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html