Mysterious Floppy Activity?

[SuperSix]

My wife's computer's been acting up. Out of the blue, the floppy drive will start chattering, like it's checking to see if a disk is in there, or resetting or something. Goes on for 15-20 seconds, then stops.

Any ideas on how to stop this?

Here's the system configuration.

TIA

 

[MadRat]

You got a virus. Its a virus that tries to spread itself by retransmitting its code across your devices and the network. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

 

[Gunbuster]

Fastfind? Is office loaded?

Go to run, type msconfig, take fastfind out of the startup group

 

[SuperSix]

MADRAT
Ack.. Hate to hear the Virus theory..


GunBuster

Good call, I'll try that tonight.

 

[Vinny N]

You're not running some old version of Norton AntiVirus are you?

I've seen some systems running an old NAV start scanning the floppy out of the blue. Annoying.

 

[MadRat]

One of the Unreal Tournament cracks on GameSpy had this virus in it, but I don't remember its name. Check Norton's website for it under their search bar. It could be findfast, but I doubt it. For your sake I hope its findfast.

 

[bacillus]

could be find fast! try clearing your documents history as find fast might be checking for an old document that was on a floppy. if you do have find fast, suggest you stop it from loading in msconfig! it's a resource hog!

 

[AMB]

It could also be Network Computers starting.

 

[SuperSix]

Update:

MadRat:
No virus..

I disable FastFind, and removed some other wasted software (MSN Messen. AOL IM, Gator) we'll see if that stops the crap..