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re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive'
Saturday, October 6, 2001 at 12:31 pm
Posted by James Howard
(3 messages posted)
On Saturday, October 6, 2001 at 12:25 pm, James Howard wrote:
>I have a question about Stop
>Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive:
>
>I figured this Floppy Bug out on my PC. Go to
>www.antivirus.com/pc-cillin/
>
>there you will find a free antivrus online scan program. After running the program,
>a Troj-sircam.a virus was on my PC. The program reported all viruses and also removed
>a file named
>'Scam32.exe which was causing the floppy to access everytime I accessed a program
>or when I turned on/off my PC. My PC runs great now.
>
>jh
>
>
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re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive'
Saturday, October 6, 2001 at 12:32 pm
Posted by James Howard
(3 messages posted)
On Saturday, October 6, 2001 at 12:31 pm, James Howard wrote:
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>On Saturday, October 6, 2001 at 12:25 pm, James Howard wrote:
>
>I have a question about Stop
>Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive:
>
>I figured this Floppy Bug out on my PC. Go to
>www.antivirus.com/pc-cillin/
>
>there you will find a free antivrus online scan program. After running the program,
>a Troj-sircam.a virus was on my PC. The program reported all viruses and also removed
>a file named
>'Scam32.exe which was causing the floppy to access everytime I accessed a program
>or when I turned on/off my PC. My PC runs great now.
>
>jh
>
>SORRY the path was incorrect. It should be -
www.antivirus.com/pc-cillin/
>
>
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re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive'
Friday, February 8, 2002 at 7:15 pm
Posted by lee
(2 messages posted)
i had a similar problem, i found that "find fast" was the culprit. i simply removed
it, and i have had no other floppy seek problems since. although you can disable
"find fast" if you dont want to remove it.
On Saturday, October 6, 2001 at 12:25 pm, James Howard wrote:
>I have a question about Stop
>Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive:
>
>I figured this Floppy Bug out on my PC. Go to
>www.antivrus.com/pc-cillin/
>
>there you will find a free antivrus online scan program. After running the program,
>a Troj-sircam.a virus was on my PC. The program reported all viruses and also removed
>a file named
>'Scam32.exe which was causing the floppy to access everytime I accessed a program
>or when I turned on/off my PC. My PC runs great now.
>
>jh
>
>
>
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