[CS-FSLUG] [OT] Windows XP does something fishy
Josiah Ritchie
jritchie at bible.edu
Thu May 20 15:56:46 CDT 2004
On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 16:37, N. Thompson wrote:
> I've noticed in Windows that when its left on and I haven't been on it
> in a while the hard drive comes into use for extended periods of time. I
> do not think Windows XP is defragmenting during its idle time because
> I've checked the disk fragmentation after its done that for a while, as
> far as I can tell I also don't have any spyware or adware or viruses on
> my computer as this has been happening for a long time and I've been
> keeping my anti-virus, anti-trojan and anti-spyware software up to date.
>
> I have a firewall in Windows, I also have anti-virus, anti-trojan and
> anti-spyware software installed so what could be causing windows to work
> the computer so hard when its supposed to be idle?
Is antivirus scanning the HD?
JSR/
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