My mum's Yoga 2 Pro has been suffering from low disk space messages for a little while now, and I've been a little lazy, but finally decided to find the problem. Nothing appeared to be out of the ordinary at first glance, pictures, video, my documents, etc. nothing took up more than 10GB or so.
So I showed hidden files/folders, went snooping around and finally found the culprit inside the ProgramData/Norton folder, a 159GB text document...
Just wondering if anyone has heard of an issue like this before, known bug with Norton? Or possibly the doing of malware/a virus? Online search turned up no similar reports that I could find.
It's just this one document, and it hasn't been modified since August 31st, 2015 so it seems more likely to be a Norton bug/fluke rather than malicious software of some sort, or I'd imagine it'd be constantly updating itself?
I'm gonna run Malwarebytes/Windows Defender Malicious Removal Tools etc. just to be safe, but I have a feeling it's Norton. I've never liked Norton/McAfee, but her husband prefers she use them.
Anyways, just curious if anyone has seen this issue before and can recommend a few links so I can fix it properly, and then also find out what's causing it to prevent it from happening again.
Thanks.
Screenshot of file in question.
So I showed hidden files/folders, went snooping around and finally found the culprit inside the ProgramData/Norton folder, a 159GB text document...
Just wondering if anyone has heard of an issue like this before, known bug with Norton? Or possibly the doing of malware/a virus? Online search turned up no similar reports that I could find.
It's just this one document, and it hasn't been modified since August 31st, 2015 so it seems more likely to be a Norton bug/fluke rather than malicious software of some sort, or I'd imagine it'd be constantly updating itself?
I'm gonna run Malwarebytes/Windows Defender Malicious Removal Tools etc. just to be safe, but I have a feeling it's Norton. I've never liked Norton/McAfee, but her husband prefers she use them.
Anyways, just curious if anyone has seen this issue before and can recommend a few links so I can fix it properly, and then also find out what's causing it to prevent it from happening again.
Thanks.
Screenshot of file in question.