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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