- May 22, 2010
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Hi all,
There are two threads that are similar to this one but they haven't helped me, unfortunately.
My laptop, running Windows XP, was briefly infected with Trojan "Mal/Hck Pk-E" which, I think, caused my Kindle for PC to crash spectacularly and send dear Dr Watson into overdrive. I ignored Kindle, for the longest time, thinking it was just a glitch and it would straighten itself out eventually. No such luck. I figured something was up only when I received one of those blurbs that said something to the affect of: "You have 0 MB left! Would you like to free up some hard drive?" I was aghast at this point, because there's supposed to be a warning when you get down to 2 GB, right? And I hadn't even been using up that much of my hard drive to start with!
So I tried deleting a few things, but still received the dreaded "0 MB" message. I was getting vaguely terrified and finally did a hard shut down of the laptop (Kindle still wouldn't close, either). I waited a day, rebooted and ran my anti-virus, Webroot, which immediately caught and quarantined the trojan. I was beginning to think my problems were over, but no: my hard drive was still mostly eaten up. So I deleted a few things and currently have 6 GB of memory left out of 106 GB.
I then ran Disk Defragment, even though it told me not to (I didn't have the requisite 15% free space) and it came up with this culprit:
Fragments: 56,119
File Size: 59.59 GB
Files that Cannot be Defragmented: \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Dr Watson\drwtsn32.log
Alright then. So I just need to find and delete the Dr Watson log, right? I looked it up on-line to make sure it wasn't anything important (which it isn't) and then set about trying to find the sucker.
Nothing. Nada. Zero-Zip.
I've tried above file path (but it ends at the non-existent "Application Data"). I've also tried the "Start > Run > drwtsn32" option, but this still doesn't get me to the mysterious log. I think I've found the actual Dr Watson program in the dll folder, but it just runs a program and tells you, "Hey everything's fine, sucker!" and doesn't let you open up any files. I know I have to be missing something! It has to be somewhere: the massive amount of hard drive space it's taking up is real enough. I have found a folder called Dr Watson (but not "drwtsn32.log") via the "Browse" option that's in the right file path place, but it doesn't seem to open; and I'm leery of deleting anything that I don't know what's inside. Does anyone have any help and suggestions to offer? Please...?
Thanks,
Allana
PS: To prevent this from happening to you, definitely do the "Start > Run > drwtsn32" and disable this useless, horrible, terrible, no-good, program.
There are two threads that are similar to this one but they haven't helped me, unfortunately.
My laptop, running Windows XP, was briefly infected with Trojan "Mal/Hck Pk-E" which, I think, caused my Kindle for PC to crash spectacularly and send dear Dr Watson into overdrive. I ignored Kindle, for the longest time, thinking it was just a glitch and it would straighten itself out eventually. No such luck. I figured something was up only when I received one of those blurbs that said something to the affect of: "You have 0 MB left! Would you like to free up some hard drive?" I was aghast at this point, because there's supposed to be a warning when you get down to 2 GB, right? And I hadn't even been using up that much of my hard drive to start with!
So I tried deleting a few things, but still received the dreaded "0 MB" message. I was getting vaguely terrified and finally did a hard shut down of the laptop (Kindle still wouldn't close, either). I waited a day, rebooted and ran my anti-virus, Webroot, which immediately caught and quarantined the trojan. I was beginning to think my problems were over, but no: my hard drive was still mostly eaten up. So I deleted a few things and currently have 6 GB of memory left out of 106 GB.
I then ran Disk Defragment, even though it told me not to (I didn't have the requisite 15% free space) and it came up with this culprit:
Fragments: 56,119
File Size: 59.59 GB
Files that Cannot be Defragmented: \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Dr Watson\drwtsn32.log
Alright then. So I just need to find and delete the Dr Watson log, right? I looked it up on-line to make sure it wasn't anything important (which it isn't) and then set about trying to find the sucker.
Nothing. Nada. Zero-Zip.
I've tried above file path (but it ends at the non-existent "Application Data"). I've also tried the "Start > Run > drwtsn32" option, but this still doesn't get me to the mysterious log. I think I've found the actual Dr Watson program in the dll folder, but it just runs a program and tells you, "Hey everything's fine, sucker!" and doesn't let you open up any files. I know I have to be missing something! It has to be somewhere: the massive amount of hard drive space it's taking up is real enough. I have found a folder called Dr Watson (but not "drwtsn32.log") via the "Browse" option that's in the right file path place, but it doesn't seem to open; and I'm leery of deleting anything that I don't know what's inside. Does anyone have any help and suggestions to offer? Please...?
Thanks,
Allana
PS: To prevent this from happening to you, definitely do the "Start > Run > drwtsn32" and disable this useless, horrible, terrible, no-good, program.
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