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My available hard drive space is getting less and less at a rapid rate even though i am not saving enough new files that are proportionate to the space getting "eaten up". I am not running time machine and i scanned with ClamXav which discovered a few trojans that appear to only affect windows machines but i deleted them anyway.
iMac (24-inch Early 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.8), 8Gb Ram 2.93 core2duo
not as far as I know here is a list
not as far as I know here is a list
good to know. Do you know of any processes in the back ground that would slowly file up my hard drive by creating new files like caches, logs, invisible files etc? or maybe a terminal command that will allow me to monitor everything that is being written to my hard drive on the fly?
thanks for the help.
There is no Mac malware that behaves that way, unless you have discovered something brand new. Your problem is a fairly common one, but with many possible causes. See Where did my Disk Space go? for information to help you troubleshoot the problem.
Also, note that the MacScan list that Rudegar posted a link to includes a lot of malware that is extinct at this point as well as a lot of things that are not malware, but could be abused by someone with physical access to your machine. For a better list, see the malware catalog in my Mac Malware Guide.
are there mac viruses that write files to your hardrive to file it up?
