Commander_Cool
Senior Member
Hello,
from time to time my PC 'acts up' in the way that suddenly and without obvious provocation there is violent, and I use the word 'violent' judiciously, activity on the c:/ drive such that the LED is lit continuously (it doesn't blink rapidly but is lit as if powered by a 5 volt battery - that's how busy the drive is) and the PC is also obviously 'elsewhere occupied' so that mouse-clicks are maddeningly slow to register and the desired action as well, or else simply ignored (stack overflow! whoa!!).
This is, to put it mildly, irritating and I am damned if I can see any reason for this volcanic, hammer-and-tongs activity.
A look in Task Manager under Processes shows nothing suspect or out of the ordinary. I have had this happen before but then it turned out that the machine was remote-controlled from Khazakstan and employed in a DDOS-attack against some local government agency; a Trojan infection which the Kaspersky Rescue Disk took care of.
But this intense diskactivity happens even when I'm not infected or even online and I would very much like to know what's going on. There is probably a good reason but I bought and paid dearly for the PC and I want full control.
Any ideas on how to find out (excepting task Manager) what's going on under the hood?
Thank you.
from time to time my PC 'acts up' in the way that suddenly and without obvious provocation there is violent, and I use the word 'violent' judiciously, activity on the c:/ drive such that the LED is lit continuously (it doesn't blink rapidly but is lit as if powered by a 5 volt battery - that's how busy the drive is) and the PC is also obviously 'elsewhere occupied' so that mouse-clicks are maddeningly slow to register and the desired action as well, or else simply ignored (stack overflow! whoa!!).
This is, to put it mildly, irritating and I am damned if I can see any reason for this volcanic, hammer-and-tongs activity.
A look in Task Manager under Processes shows nothing suspect or out of the ordinary. I have had this happen before but then it turned out that the machine was remote-controlled from Khazakstan and employed in a DDOS-attack against some local government agency; a Trojan infection which the Kaspersky Rescue Disk took care of.
But this intense diskactivity happens even when I'm not infected or even online and I would very much like to know what's going on. There is probably a good reason but I bought and paid dearly for the PC and I want full control.
Any ideas on how to find out (excepting task Manager) what's going on under the hood?
Thank you.