Remove the Hard Disk Space Eater Virus

Hi Guys. Recently one of my Friend saw a notification on his Laptop that his Drive is Running on a Low Disk Space.
He checked his downloads because he didn't downloaded any Large File recently. According to him the drive must have a free space of around 100 GB.  
This problem was mainly caused by a worm called Space Eater or you can call it whatever you want :P
Here if you're also facing similar kind of problem then you need to take few counter measures to avoid such problem in future.

• Install a Firewall.
• Use Latest Anti virus
• Keep Updating you Anti virus.
• Use Anti-key logger, Anti-Spy ware,Anti-malware etc
• Download the songs, software from trusted websites only
• Don't click on any suspicious link.

Now what else if you already messed up with anything like this. Follow these steps:

• Open you Drive and Search for a file with Suspicious size (like 80-90 GB). Most of the cases the file will be of the name spaceshot.dll just search and delete this file.
• Uninstall all the unwanted programs.
• If you're still unable to get your space back then try this....

Note: "Use it at your own risk. I'm not responsible for any damage cause to your machine."

Download the Combo Fix for your Desktop. Download it from here.

Instructions:

• Disable all your anti virus and Anti-malware and similar programs
• Disconnect from Internet
• Only then Start scanning with Combo Fix
• Don't close the scan window until it get complete.
• You'll get your lost space back.

Keep Learning. Keep Rocking :)

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