/!\ WOOGA WOOGA /!\ Possible Stupid human Error! /!\ OOOPS OOOPS /!\ if the copy of xp is new enough, its got a funky little tool called the Windows Malware Detection And removal Tool (a freind of mine who is an MS MVP has had the same problem as you just under a different circumstance.)
I took an sp1 machine, created some text files that i wanted to search for and got no problems on an athlon machine (2.4Ghz) I then upgraded to sp2 -- same machine, same 200gb sata hdd and everything no problems then i let it run its updates BAM trace shows: its the windows malware detector (aka windows defender or whatever you want to call it.) also, avg can do this too try moving 200 files with mv -r /tmp/std-output/* /logs/$$/, each about 30kb each -- Morgan gangwere Please Excuse TOFU. Gmail/Mobile has no Power. "Space does not reflect society, it expresses it." -- Castells, M., Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age, in The Cybercities Reader, S. Graham, Editor. 2004, Routledge: London. p. 82-93. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/