W2k: When I open certain pgms, pop up wanting a disk in drive A: ???? How can I stop this?

[TomBilliodeaux]

I installed a pgm (Zonealarm) from the net and since then, ZoneAlarm and other pgms will cause a popup complaining that a disk is not in drive A:
The application will not start nor can you close the popup until a disk is placed in A:

How can I find what is causing this and how to stop it?

 

[TomBilliodeaux]

bumb.
com'n. Any W2k techs around anymore?
Is this a registry fix or system startup applic that I would need to look for?

 

[Need4Speed]

do a search in the rgistry for any reference to a:\ and examine it to see if its needed. generally not. i thought there was a setting somewhere to scan a:\drive...i think that might be a tweakui option...might want to check that out.

 

[Zevot]

When it asks for a disk in drive A, does it tell you what it is looking for?

 

[GregMal]

I'll bet that the default in ZoneAlarm install is to check all
drives. Review the preferences......
Greg

 

[Davegod75]

programs do that when the last file you opened was off the A drive. The next time you hit open file or whatever it will look on the A: drive first.

 

[TomBilliodeaux]

Zvolt: No, just to insert a disk and that drive A: is not ready.
Gregmal: I'll try that this evening (its my home machine).
DaveGod75: Could be. This also got transfered to my other W2k partition, which I installed as a check to find out what was causing this.

Will see if the registry has anything like a:

Thanks.

edit: The newly installed W2k check partition also accesses a common G:/program partition.

 

[TomBilliodeaux]

Solution:

NGhost found it. VIRUS. Backorifice Trojan.

Quarantined 4 of them. They were active in memory. That is why the problem started occuring in all 3 o/s partitions even without transfering any pgms to them.

 

[TomBilliodeaux]

Also, the programs changed my Autoexec.bat file on the MBR partition.
It inserted (of course) a: as one of the search paths. When a: did not have a disc, the error message activated.

That is one problem with virus pgms. Soft may locate them, but they have already installed something. That you must correct and the virus soft cannot.
I hope to NOT learn much more about these kind of problems.