Re: Please help, unknown disk problem under XP

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From: Yves Leclerc (yleclercNOSPAM_at_maysys.com)
Date: 06/16/04 

Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:11:51 -0400

I ahve seen this 2 times recently. The way you are describe it, you system
may have been hyjacked by CoolWebSearch (argh!!!!). Download and installed
the three following utilities:

Spybot: Search and Destroy 1.3
Ad Aware 6.0
CWShredder 1.59.

These should clear off any/all spyware/malware/hackware programs that your
PC may have on it. Just make sure before you run them, always check for
updates.

"Rick" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1ccc401c45373$c6030e50$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Last night I was online and about to shut down when I
> tried to open OE. I had been using only IE. The disk
> started spinning and OE never opened and I couldn't open
> any other programs, except task manager, it didn't close
> IE either when I tried. I rebooted, figured it was just a
> virtual memory thing. When I logged again, the same thing
> started happening, the disk wouldn't stop running, I was
> able to open a command window and it seemed like the free
> space had increased. I panicked and tried safe mode. I
> logged as administrator and it worked fine. To make a
> long story short, I created a new account and when I use
> it, the disk and programs work fine but when I try the
> old account it goes crazy. Could this be a malicious
> attack? I think I read about things capable of burning a
> disk by making it work uncessantly, is this true? what
> could be the problem? I have an updated norton antivirus
> and firewall... although I am still suspicious about
> missing files, the computer works ok for now. Any help
> will be greatly appreciated

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