Subj : Gradual out of disk space - fidbox.dat To : All From : rhhardin@mindspring.com Date : Thu Jan 03 2019 09:08 am Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!f eeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!newspeer1.nac.net!border2.nntp.dca1.giganew s.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news. earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 09:08:25 -0600 Message-ID: <586BBE74.4BF3@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 10:08:36 -0500 From: Ron Hardin X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support Subject: Gradual out of disk space - fidbox.dat Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 25 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.54.70.210 X-Trace: sv3-pgEwfdiKI3AP/HPBw14YAJL7nqZ78uaGSiyxuyNg5/JAiy6MM4fER3pKF8JCeATNYDEMGbY/SLb JWWl!TaXy7frGjOWlSMOfQ0rwI0ZSnEFs1ynobKwsyB7Jmbj92Z2O478wyJ+CsTktGU20hkWZcXGaco dH!uRUmWFJjaA== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1570 Xref: news.eternal-september.org microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support:31880 In case anybody didn't know about it, there's a remnant from some popular virus scanner that gives you a growing file that eventually gets big enough to matter. c:WINDOWS/system32/drivers/fidbox.dat It's harmless to delete (and will grow again over a period of months) but you have to be in safe mode. A smaller one c:WINDOWS/system32/drivers/fidbox.idx can be deleted at the same time. The feature stays there long after the virus scanner has gone. It's worthwhile to check if you have them. -- rhhardin@mindspring.com On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk. --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .