What is the prorgram that's "waking-up" my Windows XP?

[M. B.]

I have noticed that sometime in the last 3-4 months that I have a program
that is running in the background, which every 15 minutes or so runs (as I
see a minimized Window appear for less than 2 seconds and then dissapears)
in the background.

My computer is running fine otherwise. I have ran numerous Spyware,
Ad-Aware removers, Virus checkers, Hijackers, etc... and whatever this
program is, it doesn't get deleted.

It doesnt rally bother me (or in any way effect my PC) except for one thing.
For some reason, my SCREEN saver stops working when it runs! Meaning that
as soon as my monitor goes dark, and the program runs, it seems to cause an
effect as if someone moved the mouse or touched the keyboard.

I have tried everything in trying to locate this program, but it appears and
dissapears too quickly for me to visually catch its name or anything else
for it.

Does anyone have any suggestions of what I can try to do to identify what is
going on? I am running Windows XP SP2 with all of the latest patches (as
of today).

 

[Nepatsfan]

I have noticed that sometime in the last 3-4 months that I
have a program that is running in the background, which
every 15 minutes or so runs (as I see a minimized Window
appear for less than 2 seconds and then dissapears) in the
background.
My computer is running fine otherwise. I have ran numerous
Spyware, Ad-Aware removers, Virus checkers, Hijackers,
etc... and whatever this program is, it doesn't get deleted.

It doesnt rally bother me (or in any way effect my PC)
except for one thing. For some reason, my SCREEN saver stops
working when it runs! Meaning that as soon as my monitor
goes dark, and the program runs, it seems to cause an effect
as if someone moved the mouse or touched the keyboard.
I have tried everything in trying to locate this program,
but it appears and dissapears too quickly for me to visually
catch its name or anything else for it.

Does anyone have any suggestions of what I can try to do to
identify what is going on? I am running Windows XP SP2
with all of the latest patches (as of today).

Look in your Scheduled Tasks folder for any entries that are
designed to automatically look for updates every 15 minutes.
Norton Antivirus has been known to launch a command prompt
window that flashes on screen for a few seconds when it's
checking for updates.

Run msconfig and look on the startup tab for anything that
looks like it's an automatic updater.

You can also download and run this utility to see if it will
provide some clues as to what program is behind the activity
you've observed:

Filemon
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html

Good luck

Nepatsfan