Re: Removing Infected Files

From: "Tom Robertson" <thomasrrobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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| The free space on my hard drive increased from just under 5 GB to 7.5
| GB. Does disabling System Restore do that? My recycle bin was empty
| before I deleted the C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\_AVAST4_ directory.

Yes. Re-enable the System Restore cache. However the suggested cache size is ~600MB.

I also suggest dumping your IE cache and the setting the cache size to 10MB.

Otherwise both the IE cache and the System Restore cache use a percentage of disk space and
really just wastes space.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm


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