Brian,
I thought that I was the only one who gets December depression. :-(
You might open Task Manager and look to see what is consuming a lot of
processor time. That would give you a clue, if you can decipher the
"shorthand" name of the culprit.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Brian Swale" <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 9:31 AM
Subject: [OM] ( OM ) OT Windows XP PC question
> Hello all,
>
> At this time of year I turn into a grinch. I hate Xmas for all the extra
> pressures and costs the season imposes. They throw totally out of whack
> any timetable for normal things that I might have. Without fail. It
> usually
> sends me into a significant state of depression. Oh well !
> Rant over for now.
>
> I have an Acer pc running XP. On dial-up, not broadband.
>
> Lately - in fact for a little while - I have noticed it continues
> downloading
> "something" when connected to my ISP but not supposed to be doing
> anything at all. Normally, I disconnect it when I'm not deliberately doing
> something on the internet, as I get charged $$ for every second I'm
> connected; but sometimes I forget to disconnect.
>
> It's not Avast anti-virus. Normally this will do its own updating without
> letting
> the user know, but I typically take charge of that process and know when
> it
> is done. So it's not Avast. It's not Spybot as far as I can tell, for the
> same
> reason.
>
> It's not Windows Automatic Updates as far as I can tell, as I have Updates
> turned off. I don't have enough spare space for some clown of a program to
> fill my hard drive so much the system crashes. But for all that I don't
> trust
> Windows / MS enough to necessarily believe that it is really OFF when I
> have it switched that way. It "could" be doing it.
>
> As far as I know it is not the Conficker virus; I have run the Microsoft
> test for
> that as well as Avast and I think my system is clean.
>
> It is not Apple audio as far as I know since I disabled its update
> process. it
> wanted to download 60 MB, so I showed it where to go.
>
> It "could" be Adobe; it nearly always tries to connect when I open any pdf
> file
> sent to me (and I get plenty). I'm pretty sure it wants to impose some
> massive update on me. Since it is Adobe, ANY update is sure to be
> massive. But I never agree to do what it wants, if I know about it.
>
> So; the crunch question. How can I test / check just what program is
> initiating / running these unauthorised downloads?
>
> All and any answers appreciated.
>
> Brian Swale.
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