This concerns a Toshiba notebook running on XP SP2.
For the past few days, I've noticed that, even when I am doing nothing, the
HD is hard at work doing something. By this I mean I hear a faint constant
irregular clicking and the HD LCD is flickering. I am well protected with
software firewall (ZA), virus checker and frequently check for malware.
Even when I turn off my internet connection, the HD activity continues.

When I open the Windows task manager and look at processes, the top one is
ApntEx.exe and it appears to be flickering. Yet this is the driver for my
touchpad. The highest CPU figure I can see in the Taskmanager is 98 for
"System Idle Process".

Is there a way to identify what is making the HD run constantly? The CPU
Usage is listed in taskmanager as 3-4%

I also have HDD Health installed and it says there is no known problem with
the HD with a 90% accuracy.

After writing all this, the HD sound just stopped ..... ! I restarted all
the programs I previously had on (Mailwasher, Outlook Express, Firefox) and
the busy HD sound did not return. Very weird.

Suggestions as to what is going on?

Jeff

Found a trojan: Win32:ShareAll-H

Cannot find anything about it on the web. Removed it, but what is it?

Jeff

Jeff wrote:
> This concerns a Toshiba notebook running on XP SP2.
> For the past few days, I've noticed that, even when I am doing
> nothing, the HD is hard at work doing something. By this I mean I
> hear a faint constant irregular clicking and the HD LCD is
> flickering. I am well protected with software firewall (ZA), virus
> checker and frequently check for malware. Even when I turn off my
> internet connection, the HD activity continues.
> When I open the Windows task manager and look at processes, the top
> one is ApntEx.exe and it appears to be flickering. Yet this is the
> driver for my touchpad. The highest CPU figure I can see in the
> Taskmanager is 98 for "System Idle Process".
>
> Is there a way to identify what is making the HD run constantly? The
> CPU Usage is listed in taskmanager as 3-4%
>
> I also have HDD Health installed and it says there is no known
> problem with the HD with a 90% accuracy.
>
> After writing all this, the HD sound just stopped ..... ! I
> restarted all the programs I previously had on (Mailwasher, Outlook
> Express, Firefox) and the busy HD sound did not return. Very weird.
>
> Suggestions as to what is going on?
>
> Jeff

"Jeff" <jeff@naol.com> wrote

> Found a trojan: Win32:ShareAll-H
>
> Cannot find anything about it on the web. Removed it, but what is it?
>
> Jeff
>
> Jeff wrote:
>> This concerns a Toshiba notebook running on XP SP2.
>> For the past few days, I've noticed that, even when I am doing
>> nothing, the HD is hard at work doing something. By this I mean I
>> hear a faint constant irregular clicking and the HD LCD is
>> flickering. I am well protected with software firewall (ZA), virus
>> checker and frequently check for malware. Even when I turn off my
>> internet connection, the HD activity continues.
>> When I open the Windows task manager and look at processes, the top
>> one is ApntEx.exe and it appears to be flickering. Yet this is the
>> driver for my touchpad. The highest CPU figure I can see in the
>> Taskmanager is 98 for "System Idle Process".
>>
>> Is there a way to identify what is making the HD run constantly? The
>> CPU Usage is listed in taskmanager as 3-4%
>>
>> I also have HDD Health installed and it says there is no known
>> problem with the HD with a 90% accuracy.
>>
>> After writing all this, the HD sound just stopped ..... ! I
>> restarted all the programs I previously had on (Mailwasher, Outlook
>> Express, Firefox) and the busy HD sound did not return. Very weird.
>>
>> Suggestions as to what is going on?

Maybe ask in a virus or malware newsgroup?

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]