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Hard drive-consuming log files being created

sendhelp · 2013-12-20T02:01:31+00:00

I'm having a bit of a problem with text files that are being created automatically and eating up my disk space. Every time I start Windows, a log file named MSI[xxxxx] is created in C:\Windows\Temp that quickly grows over a gigabyte and keeps expanding. This has gone on for at least a month, and n the worst case these logs have grown to over 184 gigabytes. Upon examining the log file, I've noticed that it ends up spamming three lines over and over gain. When I try to delete the most recent log, it says that it's in use by wuauclt.exe (or Windows Installer if I close that program.) I've tried to scan with MBAM and MSE for a virus, but it's picked up nothing. I've also tried scanning for corrupt system files with Sfc, but it's also picked nothing up. A friend reccomended me to use Combofix, but it hasn't solved the issue. Here is DDS.txt: DDS (Ver_2012-11-20.01) - NTFS_AMD64 Internet Explorer: 10.0.9200.16720 BrowserJavaVersion: 10.17.2 Run by [redacted] at 18:13:05 on 2013-12-19 Microso

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sendhelp

December 22, 2013, 12:44 AM UTC

Thank you so much, this virus was a complete pain and I wouldn't have been able to get rid of it without your help.

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December 22, 2013, 12:47 AM UTC

You're welcome!

Glad we could help.

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