Something is accessing my A: roughly every 5 minutes, is there any way to find out what it is?
Both spybot and Adaware show up nothing, Any ideas.
Something is accessing my A: roughly every 5 minutes, is there any way to find out what it is?
Both spybot and Adaware show up nothing, Any ideas.
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 12:19:01 GMT, "Runamuk." <not@home.com.au> wrote:
>Something is accessing my A: roughly every 5 minutes, is there any way to find out what it is?
>
>Both spybot and Adaware show up nothing, Any ideas.
>
Try using control alt del and shut down the running processes one by
one. You may have something you inadvertently programmed to save
every five minutes and told it to save to the A drive- like I did with
WordPerfect once. If that doesn't do it look for spy ware - but what
spy ware would want anything with the A drive is beyond me; it
doesn't make sense - malfunctioning spyware maybe.
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lucat bene, der default <R75/5@defaulter.net> goh, a hunnert truxx
inero, sumwit kowz n' sumwit duxx on Sun, 28 Sep 2003 11:12:28 -0400:
>On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 12:19:01 GMT, "Runamuk." <not@home.com.au> wrote:
>
>>Something is accessing my A: roughly every 5 minutes, is there any way to find out what it is?
>>
>>Both spybot and Adaware show up nothing, Any ideas.
>>
>Try using control alt del and shut down the running processes one by
>one. You may have something you inadvertently programmed to save
>every five minutes and told it to save to the A drive- like I did with
>WordPerfect once. If that doesn't do it look for spy ware - but what
>spy ware would want anything with the A drive is beyond me; it
>doesn't make sense - malfunctioning spyware maybe.
>
i was thinkin' the same thing *or mayhaps a/v software on the fritz?
some a/v probes a for boot virii when the resident protection starts
up at boot.
the same thing started happening with norton (nav) on my box years
ago. i ditched it and went for greener pastures.
--
just when my ant farm started showing a profit,
an ant bank foreclosed on it.
"Runamuk." <not@home.com.au> wrote in message
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> Something is accessing my A: roughly every 5 minutes, is there any way to
find out what it is?
>
> Both spybot and Adaware show up nothing, Any ideas.
>
>
1) Are you part of a network for that machine? If so, something is querying
shares no doubt.
2) Does this only happen on Internet or all the time? If only Internet, put
a firewall in.
3) Put a floppy in the drive and see what happens.
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 01:30:04 GMT, "|3iff //ullins"
<biff.mullins3@3premeditatedfun.com> wrote:
>lucat bene, der default <R75/5@defaulter.net> goh, a hunnert truxx
>inero, sumwit kowz n' sumwit duxx on Sun, 28 Sep 2003 11:12:28 -0400:
>
>>On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 12:19:01 GMT, "Runamuk." <not@home.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>>Something is accessing my A: roughly every 5 minutes, is there any way to find out what it is?
>>>
>>>Both spybot and Adaware show up nothing, Any ideas.
>>>
>>Try using control alt del and shut down the running processes one by
>>one. You may have something you inadvertently programmed to save
>>every five minutes and told it to save to the A drive- like I did with
>>WordPerfect once. If that doesn't do it look for spy ware - but what
>>spy ware would want anything with the A drive is beyond me; it
>>doesn't make sense - malfunctioning spyware maybe.
>>
>i was thinkin' the same thing *or mayhaps a/v software on the fritz?
>some a/v probes a for boot virii when the resident protection starts
>up at boot.
>
>the same thing started happening with norton (nav) on my box years
>ago. i ditched it and went for greener pastures.
Couldn't tell you all the problems I had with Norton AV . . . the last
straw was when it trashed the FAT and rendered the HDD useless with
one of its auto updates. It did, in effect, what I put it there to
protect me from . . . I trashed NAV. The whole computer is faster
and less glitch prone. That lesson cost me $30+ and hours of work.
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"Runamuk." <not@home.com.au> wrote in
news:VkAdb.127618$bo1.50439@news-server.bigpond.net.au:
> Something is accessing my A: roughly every 5 minutes, is there any way
> to find out what it is?
>
> Both spybot and Adaware show up nothing, Any ideas.
>
>
>
Try using FileMon from SysInternals
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml
It seems to have filter capability that should let you only look
at your A: drive.
data64
"Runamuk." <not@home.com.au> wrote in message
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> Something is accessing my A: roughly every 5 minutes, is there any way to
find out what it is?
>
> Both spybot and Adaware show up nothing, Any ideas.
>
>
This may sound unlikely but I have been repairing computers for years, and
I have found that simply clearing out the recent documents folder will solve
this 99% of the time. If that does not solve it, double check you start
folder under <Start/All Programs> and also check you schelduled task in
<Start/All Programs/Assecories/System Tools>. If the still fails to solve
the problem, see what is running on startup in MSConfig, if you are not
famlier with MSConfig, seek advice from someone who is.
All of this is with the assumption that you are using some version of
Windows as your OS.
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In <VkAdb.127618$bo1.50439@news-server.bigpond.net.au>, "Runamuk." <not@home.com.au> writes:
>Something is accessing my A: roughly every 5 minutes, is there any way to find out what it is?
>
>Both spybot and Adaware show up nothing, Any ideas.
>
>
Grab a formatted floppy, set the tab to open up
the write protect switch (tab) and put it in drive
A. If, after the magic 5 minutes, an error message
pops up that there's a write error on drive A, you
are probably the proud owner of a virus trying to
write to the boot sector.
Regards, "Mike"
-- mikeellison3xxxatzzzyahoo.com --
Mike wrote:
> Grab a formatted floppy, set the tab to open up
> the write protect switch (tab) and put it in drive
> A. If, after the magic 5 minutes, an error message
> pops up that there's a write error on drive A, you
> are probably the proud owner of a virus trying to
> write to the boot sector.
Boot viruses are kinda old now days... you used to trap Int 13h, 0301h,
BIOS write, and watch that... if it succeeded you know you could write
to the A: boot sector and not generate any write-protect error messages.
That's the method most viruses were using, but now nobody boots from
floppies any more, hardly.
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if you have microsoft office -- especially office 97, and it installed fast
find, this can happen....really irritating, but not a virus, spyware or the
like.....
jayjwa wrote:
> Mike wrote:
>
>> Grab a formatted floppy, set the tab to open up
>> the write protect switch (tab) and put it in drive
>> A. If, after the magic 5 minutes, an error message
>> pops up that there's a write error on drive A, you
>> are probably the proud owner of a virus trying to
>> write to the boot sector.
>
> Boot viruses are kinda old now days... you used to trap Int 13h, 0301h,
> BIOS write, and watch that... if it succeeded you know you could write
> to the A: boot sector and not generate any write-protect error messages.
> That's the method most viruses were using, but now nobody boots from
> floppies any more, hardly.
>
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