Hard Drive constantly running

In the last 2 days my main drive has been running continuously in short bursts - as if it's sending messages home to the mother ship. The only processes which show as running are taskmgr and Idle Process (out of the 75 processes present).

I have completed the entire virus scan as directed and a number of 'normal' looking adware and data miner type files were deleted.

The Hijack This log is attached.

Two questions:

1. Is there something in the log that looks like a virus?
2. Are there any programs out there which can look at the drive and tell me what's running?

Many thanks,

akpud

 

Please download HOSTER and then follow the below steps.

• Unzip HOSTER to a convenient folder such as C:\Hoster

• Run Hoster.exe, click Restore Original Hosts and then click OK.

• Click the X to exit the program.

Now scan with HijackThis and Check the Boxes for the following:

Make sure All Browser Windows are Closed when you Click FIX.

R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Connection Wizard,ShellNext = http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/

O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {85d1f590-48f4-11d9-9669-0800200c9a66} - %windir%\bdoscandel.exe (file missing)
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Uninstall BitDefender Online Scanner v8 - {85d1f590-48f4-11d9-9669-0800200c9a66} - %windir%\bdoscandel.exe (file missing)
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {CD67F990-D8E9-11d2-98FE-00C0F0318AFE} - (no file)

O15 - Trusted Zone: http://www.680news.com
O15 - Trusted Zone: www.whistler-blackcomb.com
O15 - Trusted Zone: www.whistlerblackcomb.com

Again, make sure All Browser Windows are Closed when you Click FIX.

NEXT:
Run CCleaner to clean up cookies and temp files.

Run full scans with Ad-Aware SE & Spybot S&D and have both programs fix what they find.
Note: Remember to get all updates before doing the scans.

Then, as an added precaution, Go to Start > Run and type: cleanmgr and then click OK. Make sure the boxes for these are checked:
Temporary Files
Temporary Internet Files
Recycle Bin

And Click OK.


After you complete the above, reboot and let me know how things are running!

 

Many thanks - I'll give it a try and let you know how it works out.
Akpud

 

10-04, will be awaiting results!

 

All the scans etc have been completed. I'll give it a few days and get back to you with the results.

If it does start to 'run on' again, is there a capture program that can tell me exactly what's running on the drive or what's accessing the drive (other than Task Manager)?

Again, thanks very much for your help!

akpud

 

Yeah, there are many programs that will do this, if you keep having this issue I would recommend posting in the hardware forum and if needed you can come back to the Spyware Forum.

 

Well........things seem to have quieted down substantially, however, it still seems to me that the drive is running at times when there's nothing going on. As soon as I hear the drive take off I check the Task Manager to see what's cooking. Sometimes its my MS Outlook add on indexing (which is fine), but most of the time I can't identify what its doing.

Can you recommend a program which would be able to indicate what process is accessing the drive?

Many thanks,

akpud.

 

There are so many programs for this, one of the best I would say is Process Explorer 9.2

Security Task Manager is also good, but I think it cost!