I was scanning through my computer looking for bloated programs and I came across Microsoft Antispyware. I went to check it’s disk usage and guess what is was:
4,324,919,915 (4,325,470,208 on disk) bytes.
I was a bit starled at this number. The source of the p roblem was the log. Yes, it was a txt file. It was a 4GB txt file.
I was wondering why this was. It ended up it was the beta version of the program and just an abnormal bug. I just uninstalled AntiSpyware all together, because it’s use has been expired since July, 31 2005.
So, if you still have the old beta installed, GET RID OF IT OR SUFFER MASSIVE DISK USAGE.
– MK
November 2, 2005 at 10:15 pm
Hello all! I submitted it to digg.com and this is the digg url: http://digg.com/software/Microsoft_AntiSpyware_Uses_up_4GB_of_Disk_Space (or Here)
Enjoy!
November 2, 2005 at 10:17 pm
microsoft antispyware only uses 26mb on my pc
November 2, 2005 at 10:30 pm
wow what is wrong with your pc
November 2, 2005 at 10:42 pm
14 mb on mine.. Try emptying you damn quarentined files first before postiing somethng stupid like this.
November 3, 2005 at 4:15 pm
Dude, thats massive.
November 9, 2005 at 5:43 pm
Yeah, it wasn’t in the quarintined file. If you read the intire post, it was a single file that logs everything that Anti-Spyware does. It was named log.txt. It was just very bad programming on Microsoft’s behalf not to clear the log, even if it reaches massive size.
November 28, 2005 at 10:26 pm
seen this on lots of PC’s, upto 4GB is not unusual!