Hi everyone.
Firstly, i'm pretty computer illiterate so forgive me.
Each week I seem to lose 500+mb from my hard disk space (I have very little spare space and everything that can be deleted has been deleted).
The problem is the program files /common files/symantec shared/virusdefs folder. Surely this should only be a few mbs in size? Its full of .tmp folders (EG tmp1508.tmp) some of which are 80+mb in size and making a total of over 2gb!
I'm running windows 2000pro, norton antivirus 2005. Have read a few other threads but none of the solutions offered work for me. I cant upgrade to 2009 as it doesnt work in windows 2000 and deleting the liveupdate cache only clears around 20mb.
Someone said not to delete any of these folders, as my computer will not be protected.
Frankly I dont understand that viewpoint - if I bought a brand new PC and downloaded/installed norton antivirus for the first time, it wouldnt download several gb of definitions would it?
So is there a way of deleting these files but keeping things up to date protection wise?
many thanks.
Any help advice appreciated, i've practically run out of hard disk space altogether!