> I have Internet ToolBox and am using the "Connections
> Watcher" feature. Periodically, especially late in
> the afternoon, I hear hard-drive activity from my PC
> when it is idle, which makes me suspect I have a
> virus that is trying to send some type of data out.
The virus is most like Win 9x! :-)
When I have had noisy hard drives, I used to notice this
a lot, even when there was no network connection. Win 9x
(especially 95 before OSR2) does a lot of background
activity when idle. Of course M$ doesn't like to document
anything that is happening and unlike *nix, you cannot see
what background processes are actually running. And if
you could, there are no man pages to tell you what they do.
This always seemed to happen more, the longer I went without
a disk defrag, so I assumed it had something with virtual
memory management, or tmp files or something of that nature.
It is always a little unnerving when the disk starts to
clatter, with no appear ant process that provokes it.
You got a lot of answers on the TCP/IP side, so I won't
get into that.
Bob Gerrish
Unix Systems Administrator
Trim Systems, LLC
Seattle, WA
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