Lost A Large Amount Of Disk Space OVERNIGHT.

Q: So there, last night I was defragmenting my hard drive, not at all installing anything on it. I haven’t installed any programs for the last three days, but to my surprise after the defragmentation was completed, 5gb of my hard drive space was lost! And it doesn’t end there! Every 5-10 minutes after that, I’d lose from 100-200mb of space, which, today, brings it to a grand total of 14gb! What’s happening? Could it be a virus? Please advise.

Laptop specs:
Lenovo 3000 N100 running on WinVista Home Basic
AVP’s: Norton 360, Avast 4.8
HDD Space last night: ~42.2 gb
Now: 29.9gb

It can’t be normal to lose that much drive space overnight, now can it??

A. if you have ever used linux on your hard drive it may have caused you to not see the extra hard drive space, because windows cant see the linux particions, try getting a copy of knoppix live cd, it will boot from your your cd rom, and be able to see any hiden particions, that could explain 1 possibility.

empty your temp internet files, delete your cookies, clear the history, then click start, then choose the run, type in , msconfig hit enter, select the stratup tab, uncheck all. then hit apply, then look thru the list , and make sure to put checks in theantivirus box. then click the apply button again, and then ok . the computer will reboot,,, when it comes back up , put a check in the box , so the msconfig box doesnt show every time your computer reboots. if there is a rely virus that loads on start up you have prevented it from being loaded when you reboot.

now take a few minutes to run a good anti virus program .
you might also check for a rootkit, or a server hidden on your drive,
you could be sending out spam with out even knowing it .

or hosting a porn site for some one , there might also have some bad sectors on the drive,,, also if the drive has een subjected to extreme heat. or had been dropped, it copuld explain many of the things you are experiencing.

hope these things help

Original Question

what software do i use to lock porn sites from kids?

A. 1st you can go to Internet option in control panel and go to content tab and setup this
but you can use some software :

Internet Password Lock is a software program for Windows 2000/XP/NT computers (does not work on Windows 95/98/Me) that allows you to password protect all access to the Internet. This includes Web surfing, Instant Messaging, and email. Parents can use Internet Password Lock to protect your children by making sure children do not use the Internet without a parent present. Businesses can use Internet Password Lock to lock out unauthorized…

Price: USD $20.00; File Size: 817 KB;
Platform: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003

you can use parental control in windows vista ! parental control is very power full program can help you !
but …
Kids in these days are smarter in tech world than adults. If you believe those simple method can prevent them from accessing porn sites, you are seriously mistaken. If you set block options in IE, they can still use different browser. Parental control software is also useless. Kids can simply bypass them entirely by booting with Linux Live CD – although you don’t know what it is, please don’t assume kids don’t know them. There is virtually no way to prevent them. However, if I would do it, I would block them from router (not on browser, not on PC) with both blocked URL, IP, and keyword. If this seems to be too technical, please seek a help from experts

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