Disk Ativity

[Brian W.]

I have disabled Indexing, and there is still disk activity, when I am
not doing anything. Is it the defrag or what is running. I am running Vista
Home Basic.
Thank-You in advance
Sincerely; Brian W.

 

[Richard G. Harper]

Difficult to say. Could be defrag, could be a System Restore point being
created, could be the page file being updated, could be a background
antivirus or antispyware scan, could be your computer is infected with
adware or spyware and is hosting gigabytes of copyright violations ... lots
of possibilities.

 

[Richard Urban]

In addition to what Mr. Harper has said:

Has your computer become part of a bot net (there are many) ? This would
certainly account for disk activity as your computer spews out hundreds of
thousands of bogus emails per day - behind your back.

Get a good internet monitoring program to see if this is happening. I use
NetMeter.

I went to my sons house a few weeks back. He had not actively used his
computer for a couple of hours. Yet, NetMeter showed that his out going
stream was using about 2.1 meg of bandwidth. This went on for over 2 hours
before I shut down his cable connection.

His computer was "owned" as it turned out.

After retreating to a system image I had created for him a few weeks prior,
all activity stopped and his hard disk was again quiet.