1.3GB errors.log file

[Stephan]

Hi!
I've been rooting around my system and found that the
errors.log file has grown to 1.3GB in size. I can't open it
but it's using fair chunk of my hard disk. Is this supposed
to grow to this size? I've only been running the software
for a couple of weeks...

Thanks,
Stephan

 

[Andre Da Costa]

It is recommended that you right-click the system tray Icon for Microsoft
Antispyware, and choose Shutdown. Then delete the file.

Andre

 

[Bill Sanderson]

No--here's what I'd do.

1) shut down Microsoft Antispyware by right clicking on the system tray icon
and choosing shut down.

2) If you have any software which can easily look at a file of this size,
consider extracting a small portion of the file and posting it here. If
there is primarily one repeated error, that may be helpful to see. This may
not be easy to accomplish, though.

3) I would uninstall Microsoft Antispyware. I had a machine on which this
happened, and I later reinstalled Microsoft Antispyware, and the symptom has
not recurred. So--I don't know whether this was a symptom of an
installation-specific issue, or some set of circumstances in the operation
of that machine (a Windows 2000 server) which haven't been duplicated since.

So--you can choose to reinstall and watch the file, or wait for another beta
version--choose your level of comfort/risk.

 

[sean]

The only way to avoid error.log file from becoming bigger
is not to shutdown microsoft antispyware on the system
tray instead go to security agent status and deactivate
internet agents, system agents, application agent, also
the option on real-time protection uncheck the box.

I've shut down Microsoft antispyware like 30 times on the
system tray icon and each time i do it the error.log got
bigger each time.