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 Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 8:24 pm Post subject: Symantec is filling my hard drive |
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I am on endpoint protection 11 and I noticed I had only a few gigs of free space left on my workstations hard drive. I checked where all of the space had gone and 33 gigs of space was in prgram files\common files\symantec shared\virusdefs folder as temp folders. I searched the web and found I am not the only one. There was a good post here of what others were doing. What worked for me was | Quote: | ok heres an update
after a lot of fiddling I have made this script:
net stop liveupdate
net stop "symantec antivirus"
net stop ccevtmgr
net stop smcservice
net stop ccsetmgr
"c:\program files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\"smc -stop
"c:\Program Files\Symantec AntiVirus\"smc -stop
del /s /q /f "c:\program files\common files\symantec shared\virusdefs\*.*"
rmdir "c:\program files\common files\symantec shared\virusdefs\20071107.018"
rmdir "c:\program files\common files\symantec shared\virusdefs\20071112.017"
rmdir "c:\program files\common files\symantec shared\virusdefs\20071105.016"
rmdir "c:\program files\common files\symantec shared\virusdefs\20071106.025"
rmdir "c:\program files\common files\symantec shared\virusdefs\20070820.048"
rmdir /s /q "c:\program files\common files\symantec shared\virusdefs"
mkdir "c:\program files\common files\symantec shared\virusdefs"
"c:\program files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\"smc -start
"c:\Program Files\Symantec AntiVirus\"smc -start
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After deleting everything and restarting AV, the icon for Norton was different and said there was a problem and something was corrupt. Luckily after a minute or two it fixed itself. I guess I am going to have to watch my free space. The other feature of all this is that my hard drive is extremely fragmented. Fortunately there is loads of free space for it to run. |
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