Font Folder 35GB, is that a virus ?

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  1. soamz

    soamz MDL Senior Member

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  2. LatinMcG

    LatinMcG Bios Borker

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    i worked remote support for customers of QVC and they had a Fonts package software.. you have similar ?
     
  3. soamz

    soamz MDL Senior Member

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    No sir!
    Nothing as such.
     
  4. T-S

    T-S MDL Guru

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    35GB seem pretty big, but likely the oriental fonts are way bigger than the latins ones.
     
  5. darroue

    darroue MDL Novice

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    Use SpaceSniffer to figure out which files takes so much space. Dont forget to run it as Administrator in order to avoid showing "access denied" errors.
     
  6. bmurphr1

    bmurphr1 MDL Junior Member

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    I don't believe that your Fonts folder actually is 35GB in size. Look at the amount of bytes in parenthesis...notice anything weird? The comma placements are off... six numbers and a comma, two numbers and a comma, and then three numbers at the end. Looks to me as if your folder isn't actually 35GB but you just happened to find a nice little bug in explorer.exe which displays improper comma placements in numbers and because of that reported the wrong folder and file sizes. If I were you I'd contact Microsoft and show them this image and see what they have to say about it, because it looks like something which definitely needs a hotfix created and deployed to correct the problem that you're having.
     
  7. soamz

    soamz MDL Senior Member

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    So you suggest to clean install now ?
     
  8. T-S

    T-S MDL Guru

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    Start posting your dir result as suggested earlier.
     
  9. soamz

    soamz MDL Senior Member

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    Dir result ?
    How ?
     
  10. pf100

    pf100 Duct Tape Coder

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    This will send the result to a file called fontsfolder.txt on c:\
    dir /a C:\Windows\Fonts > c:\fontsfolder.txt
     
  11. Hadron-Curious

    Hadron-Curious MDL Guru

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    Use malwarebytes to scan your system for any malicious software that is the culprit.
     
  12. soamz

    soamz MDL Senior Member

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    How is Spy Hunter ?