Significant Hard drive memory lost? Constantly changing in front of me.

Hello,
I have just been warned that my harddrive space is running low on my 1 and a half year old macbook pro, when last time I checked, about 2 days ago, I had over 70GB, but now I have around 700mb, and the numbers are going up and down right in front of my eyes!
I have done nothing or downloaded anything for this to be happening all of a sudden.
Help! Any ideas what is going on, and how/if I can resolve this please?
I really hope I have not got a virus, thats part of the reason I got a Mac!
Thank You
Sam

I had over 70GB, but now I have around 700mb, and the numbers are going up and down right in front of my eyes!
Which os are you using? You provided no system information in your profile.
Disconnect all peripherals from your computer. Boot from your install disc & run Repair Disk from the utility menu. To use the Install Mac OS X disc, insert the disc, and restart your computer while holding down the C key as it starts up.
Select your language.
Once on the desktop, select Utility in the menu bar.
Select Disk Utility.
Select the disk or volume in the list of disks and volumes, and then click First Aid.
Click Repair Disk.
Restart your computer when done.
Repair permissions after you reach the desktop-http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25751 and restart your computer.
Help! Any ideas what is going on, and how/if I can resolve this please?
Space checkers and locators
Disk Inventory X
OmniDiskSweeper
WhatSize
SpaceControl
I really hope I have not got a virus
There are no viruses for os x.

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