Re: Cable modem activity light continuously flashes

From: William W. Plummer (William.PlummerXNOSPAMX_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 03/16/04 

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:46:47 GMT

"Moe Hair" <mohair@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:Xns94AE9E6D8159mohair@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net...
> I was just wondering if I'm the only one who hears my hard drive crank on
> occasion, with the activity light flashing. I know it could be spyware.
> I've done plenty of sweeps in the last few days with numerous programs,
not
> to mention virus checks. I've also run tlist -s to see what my 4
svchost.exe
> processes are doing (nothing out of the ordinary) and also check my task
> manager regularly to see all the processes running.
>
> I know it could be Windows accessing the net or the Norton AV program, or
> even Zone Alarm blocking incoming missiles.
>
> Do any or all of you notice your activity light flashes on a regular
basis?

One of our machines had the same problem. In the end, I used CWShredder,
Ad-Aware, SpyRemover (SpyBot Search and Destroy), and Easy Cleaner. Look at
the startup programs (MSConfig or Ad-Aware). Track down any programs you
don't recognize. A major telltale was hidden .exe and .dll files in
Windows, System, System32. So, unhide everything in these directories. If
you have a suspicious file executing, rename it out of the way (foo.exe to
X_foo.exe). That way you will be able to recover if it's a required file.

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