hi guys!
my scan detected a malware-Win32:Dialer-DW [Trj], located at-C:\WINDOWS\MEMORY.DMP, and the recommended action is to Move to chest. but when I do it it tells me that I don’t have enough space on the disk.
I have 2 hard drives, the one (C:) where all the programs and system files are kept has 133GB free, the other (E:), where I only have personal filis, has 189GB free.
which disk is the message talking about, and can I delete the file instead of moving it to chest?
thanks 
Hi nakata,
Unless you have a need for a memory dump (you are debugging a malfunctioning machine),
you can set it to just do a minidump instead.
Control Panel/System/Advanced tab/Startup and Recovery
settings, under system failure, change the write debugging to a minidump
(64K). Click ok, then close up - it will be the new default when you reboot.
The memory dump has info on a previous system failure,
As long as you’ve re-installed/recovered your Windows OS,
you can safely delete the old dump file (as they’re called.)
As for why it doesn’t defragment - that’s by design. In the interest of
getting the job done more quickly, XP’s defragmenter doesn’t defrag files in
low priority paths. Since Microsoft doesn’t anticipate that you’ll have
great need for dump files, they aren’t defragmented,
pol
The memory.dmp file is created when your system crashes it contains what is in memory at the time of the crash, which could have contained malware. It could be as large as your memory so may not be allowed to send to the chest without changing the settings.
If you have the tools and experience you can examine this file to help discover why the crash happened, if you don’t have this experience and tools, it is worthless to you. The older the file is the less worth it is also.
If windows were to crash again then it would create a new memory.dmp file if one wasn’t present or replace any existing one. So there really is no downside to deleting this memory.dmp file.