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re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus?
Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 8:00 pm
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Posted by Rich Kurtz (11295 messages posted)

"chm" is normally a help file of some kind. 30GB seems a tad large for a help file. It's either some kind of malware you've picked up or some software install that has gone nuts. Delete it. Doesn't matter if some program needs it or not, it should definitely not be there and absolutely not that size.

Do you have Windows Update set to run automatically? If so, perhaps something it downloaded went nuts and created that file.

If it comes back then you have some malware on your computer, so follow directions at any of the following sites. The folks there are dedicated to malware removal and will be able to help you determine if your system is infected and if so how to clean it up. They require that you register but they are all free. Also be patient as they are usually very busy:

GeeksToGo
WhattheTech (formerly Tom Coyote)
Spyware Beware

Written in response to:
re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Matt Hartley: Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 4:58 pm)

Responses to this message:
re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Matt Hartley: Friday, December 7, 2007 at 1:13 am)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Matt Hartley: Friday, December 7, 2007 at 1:59 am)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Matt Hartley: Friday, December 7, 2007 at 2:01 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]

Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Matt Hartley: Wed, Dec 5, 2007, 2:17 pm)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Deb: Wed, Dec 5, 2007, 3:16 pm)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Matt Hartley: Wed, Dec 5, 2007, 3:25 pm)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Matt Hartley: Wed, Dec 5, 2007, 3:31 pm)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Matt Hartley: Wed, Dec 5, 2007, 5:16 pm)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Deb: Wed, Dec 5, 2007, 5:27 pm)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Matt Hartley: Thu, Dec 6, 2007, 2:37 am)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Rich Kurtz: Thu, Dec 6, 2007, 4:29 pm)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Matt Hartley: Thu, Dec 6, 2007, 4:58 pm)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Rich Kurtz: Thu, Dec 6, 2007, 8:00 pm)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Matt Hartley: Fri, Dec 7, 2007, 1:13 am)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Matt Hartley: Fri, Dec 7, 2007, 1:59 am)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Matt Hartley: Fri, Dec 7, 2007, 2:01 am)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (jcrespo: Fri, Dec 7, 2007, 7:57 am)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Deb: Fri, Dec 7, 2007, 3:57 pm)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Rich Kurtz: Fri, Dec 7, 2007, 6:12 pm)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Matt Hartley: Sat, Dec 8, 2007, 5:14 am)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Matite: Tue, Dec 18, 2007, 10:06 pm)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Rich Kurtz: Wed, Dec 19, 2007, 4:23 pm)

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