Hard Drive Memory disappearing and c:\END appearing in c drive

[jffl29]

First, sorry if I'm a little slow with some of this as I'm moderate with my computer knowledge.

Earlier today I had 517 gb of memory available in the C drive. I restarted my computer earlier today and once it restarted I saw I was down to 1.84 gb. I ran crap cleaner already and did a quick scan with malwarebytes but no answers.

I also noticed a new file listed named c:\END. When you open this with notepad it says "conduitok"

There also seems to be ads and a new toolbar listed in IE. Any ideas how to find out what the heck is going on here?

Thanks!

 

[Dude]

jffl29,

welcome to the forums. The c:\End you can right click and delete. I would run Malwarebytes (free edition) and adwcleaner.

Also look here

Remove toolbars in IE

 

[jffl29]

I ran malwarebytes earlier and had no results. I ran the other program you mentioned which slightly helped. I'm not up to 3.68 gb. It looks like those ads have been removed as well. Like I said though, before restarting my computer earlier, I had 517gb available. So I'm still unsure what's going on.

 

[Dude]

:ar:

I ran malwarebytes earlier and had no results. I ran the other program you mentioned which slightly helped. I'm not up to 3.68 gb. It looks like those ads have been removed as well. Like I said though, before restarting my computer earlier, I had 517gb available. So I'm still unsure what's going on.

517GB of hard drive space? If that is the case to a system cleanup

:ar: System cleanup


If you are talking about memory please update your system specs using this

:ar:Specs

Your current specs show 32bit windows which will allow less than 4gb of memory

 

[jffl29]

Sorry about that. I updated my system specs. It was 64-bit not 32. Disk cleanup would only give me an additional 4.97mb of space. I did run ccleaner earlier today which may be why it's such little space.

 

[Dude]

So are you worried about your memory then? Post a screenshot of resource monitor memory tab. If you use the specs link tool I posted that would help too.

 

[Layback Bear]

Look in the lower left corner of Dude's post and my post and you will see (My System Specs); tick on them. That is what we mean by system specs.

 

[whs]

Run this program, make a snip of the result and post it here: http://windirstat.info/