Multiple VIRSCAN7 filling hard drive

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Hi, all,

 

I am searching for a solution to a problem I am having with NIS 2006.  There are roughly 50 copies now of the VIRSCAN7 file using up roughly 1.75G of my hard drive, which is approaching 20% of its total capacity.  There is now not enough free disk space left for further Virus Protection Updates and this is interfering with normal use of my laptop.  I would think NIS should be deleting obsolete virus datafiles, but it does not appear to be doing that.

 

Searching the Internet, I found a recommended solution of upgrading to NIS 2009.  However, I am running Windows 2000, which is not included in the NIS2000 list of system requirements.

 

Is there anything else I can do? 

 

Thanks,

Joe R.

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Please check out this thread. Another user with NIS 2006 had a similar issue.

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Thanks, Vejdin.  That gave me the information I needed.  Purging the cache freed up a few meg.  But I could not delete the old data files until I actually uninstalled NIS.  Once I did that, I could delete the data files, thereby clearing 5.0G of my 11G hard drive.

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jrobertjr wrote:
Thanks, Vejdin.  That gave me the information I needed.  Purging the cache freed up a few meg.  But I could not delete the old data files until I actually uninstalled NIS.  Once I did that, I could delete the data files, thereby clearing 5.0G of my 11G hard drive.

Great! I just want to note that it is possible to delete data without uninstalling NIS, but you should start Windows in Safe mode.