size of program exceeds 3 gig

[Jenn]

In helping out my brother with a computer he was given, we
determined that the 6 gig HD was full. After searchign the
user folders, the temp folders and uninstalling most
things, we hadn't freed up much space. On inspection of the
program files folder, we discovered the MS Antispyware
folder was consuming 3 + gig. Having trouble believing he
was seeing this correctly, I had him uninstall the program
and delete the folder. And wham, he had 3 gig free space.
My question is, is that normal? I checked other PC's I had
installed the program on, and the program files folder was
less than 1 gig in every case. What could have caused it to
consume so much space on this one computer?

 

[Andre Da Costa]

Shutdown Microsoft AntiSpyware from the notfication area, navigate to
c:\program files\microsoft antispyware and delete the "errors" log text
file. Restart the computer.

 

[Guest]

We already uninstalled the program and deleted the entire
folder from program files, so I can't do that, but I take
it you have seen the error log grow to a large size?

 

[Andre Da Costa]

Did you do it exactly like my instruction says?

 

[JohnF.]

A bad install will do that. You should be able to correct it though.

 

[Guest]

No I didn't because I had already deleted the entire folder
before posting. I should have made that clearer in my
initial post. My question is actually just if this is a
normal size, and your post (Thank You) made me wonder if
you had seen the error log grow to a large size before, so
that if I should run into the problem again, I will know
where to start looking for a solution.

 

[Andre Da Costa]

Its normal for error log to grow to that size. I read somewhere in the
newsgroups it possibly has something to do with no support in limited
accounts. I think this will be fixed in beta 2.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Jenn--the errors.log file can grow to 4 gigabytes on an NTFS partition,
under circumstances which are not accurately predictable. I've seen it do
this on a couple of Windows 2000 servers, and I uninstalled the product from
those machines--not worth the risk.

On a workstation machine, it's your choice. I've seen it go for weeks
without growing unusually, and then take off--it isn't predictable. I would
expect this to be fixed in the next beta download offering, but I don't have
a prediction about when that might be available.

 

[Andre Da Costa]

It grows to 17MBs on my system but I just leave it let it enjoy itself.

 

[Robert de Vos]

It grows to 17MBs on my system but I just leave it let it enjoy itself.

It never grows here....but i am not so pretty

 

[plun]

Robert de Vos explained :

It never grows here....but i am not so pretty

^^ ^^ ^^ ^^

 

[Robert de Vos]

Robert de Vos explained :





^^ ^^ ^^ ^^

ps something on topic. A consumerstest organisation has tested some
antyspyware. And already MSAS is the best one.
Do you have any knowlegde of MS is sponsoring this ?

 

[plun]

Robert de Vos explained on 2005-05-05 :

ps something on topic. A consumerstest organisation has tested some
antyspyware. And already MSAS is the best one.
Do you have any knowlegde of MS is sponsoring this ?

Gr Jan posted this in announcements group:

http://www.consumentenbond.nl/nieuws/nieuws/1501300?ticket=nietlid

Nope, MS can?t sponsor an european org............ ! EU and MS are not
friends.

But i believe this is real facts.

 

[Robert de Vos]

Robert de Vos explained on 2005-05-05 :



Gr Jan posted this in announcements group:

http://www.consumentenbond.nl/nieuws/nieuws/1501300?ticket=nietlid

And did you read it ?

Nope, MS can?t sponsor an european org............ ! EU and MS are not
friends.

But i believe this is real facts.

When i think of this you are right. BUT, some functions that doesnt work
at the moment must be activated. Otherwise you must use at least CCleaner

 

[Guest]

they should fix this errror.log on beta 2 as nobody wants
to loose 4 gigabytes

 

[plun]

Robert de Vos wrote :

And did you read it ?

Yup, as swedish I understand a lot of dutch words.

 

[plun]

(e-mail address removed) formulated the question :

they should fix this errror.log on beta 2 as nobody wants
to loose 4 gigabytes

It will be fixed, just remove this error.log, it will be created again
after
reboot or uninstall MSAS.

 

[Andre Da Costa]

For now we just have to settle for deleting it manually.

 

[Dick Grant]

The same happened to me. It grew as I watched,repeating
the same line over and over. I contacted MS to no avail.
They ignored me. So I just blew the app.away for all
eternity. A garbage spyware considering what's out
there.Do your homework and put a few freebees plus one
good "pay for" on your comp.