I'm running windows 98. Are there any viruses that eats up free space on your hard drive?

I was on limewire downloading some stuff I shouldn't have. Anyway, I was running scandisk and I notice half my disk space had bad clusters. The only thing I can think of is it's a virus or a worm. So I ran AVG, NORTON, BITDEFENDER, PANDA, bitdefender did find a w32 worm but nothing major.

PLEASE HELP

I'm running windows 98. Are there any viruses that eats up free space on your hard drive?systemworks

My, do you mean that is Win 32. Blaster. worm? That is one of the dangerious virus and Win98 may not do much better about it.

Firstable you have to change your RPC (Remote Procedure Call) setting , you can do it at: %SystemRoot%\system32\services.msc /s , to be to do nothing when RPC lost.

Second you may modify some item in your regeidt file. But personally I advice you to update to Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 or other Windows version that higher. Windows 98 can do even nothing about this virus.

If you want to clean remove it from your pc, please try Trendmicro's security program ( this tool is designed for win32, blaster). BUT PLEASE REMMEMBER THIS CAN ONLY HELP YOU TO REMOVE IT, IT CANNOT KEEP DISTANCE FROM IT.

Good luck!

I'm running windows 98. Are there any viruses that eats up free space on your hard drive?windows

You are probably just asking for trouble by still using Win98.

Once you have a virus, anything is possible.

Back up what's only absolutely necessary and if you are going to reinstall Win98, format, fdisk, and reinstall Win98.

If you decide to upgrade, the installation CD does it all for you. If you don't already know how to do those things, there's too much to explain here, better either research the process on the web, or take your 'puter somewhere.

Only install files from your backup AFTER you have a known good computer scan the files.