Incredible Growing Subfolder

[Guest]

Have any of you experienced or heard of this sort of phenomenon before?
Thanks very much in advance for any comments

I use XP Pro, PC Cillin Security suite, Spysweeper, and beta Windows
Defender on my computer. Daily updates and scans.

Went to defrag my small (80GB) hard drive about two weeks ago and was amazed
to see that 35.5 gigs were in use. I just don't download many files or load
all that many programs, but I let it pass.

Then the last couple of days, the operation seemed sluggish and PC Cillin
began taking over 2 hours to run a scan that normally takes about 18 minutes.
I noticed it was crawling on its own internet security files. So I went to
the Trend Micro Folder and discovered that the Internet Security 2006 folder
was now 21.5 gigs!?! What's as amazing ( to me anyway) is when I entered the
folder and alligned all the files and subfolders by size, there was nothing
unusually large at all visible. They should not have added up to more than
about 150megs at most. Called Trend Micro tech and they said the normal size
should be 100 to 200 Megs. They had never heard of anything like this and had
no explanation. Maybe in too much of a hurry to streamline, I deleted the
humongous folder and then uninstalled and reinstalled PC Cillin. FWIW I then
ran scans with all of my resident programs + an online Bit Defender scan and
all came up clear. And the PC Cillin scan was back to taking only 18 minutes
or so.

Now also back to using just 14.5 gigs, but very puzzled and more alert.
Computer seems to be running fine again. So far anyway. Is there any possible
windows glitch that could have created this incredible folder growth?

 

[Guest]

Do you have any children using your PC and surf the Net???

 

[Guest]

Unless I have been hacked I'm the only one that uses this machine; and it's a
10M bb cable modem connection,so I am not on wireless.