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pamstyle

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Jul 6, 2009
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My Macintosh HD is overloaded with asl files that keeps multiplying. There are in a group called "wheel" and file type is document. Is this a type of virus because it just keeps increasing. I have downloaded an app called disk inventory. It works, but it says that I don't have permission to delete the files.
I have had my company's IT person go into terminal & delete the files, but I can't do it myself.

The HD keeps on filling up. That's why I think it is a virus.

Mac Pro 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo; operating with Leopard 10.5.7

I continually get down to 200MBs of ram. I can't keep on going to my IT guy.
Has anyone had a similar situation?
Thanks for any help you can provide.
 
Its not a virus but probably the aslmanager getting hung up
here's an article about this problem macfixit
I'd try the steps articulated in the article to see if that resolves the problem.
 
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