Overacheiving computer.

[Alzarius]

Ok, does anyone know why, when I type a url into the address bar that my computer(while I'm typing!) deems it necessary to spin up EVERY drive in my computer(short of the 2 floppy drives)? It should only spin up drives should the url call for it, not just because it tries to get ahead of me. And IE and Windows and all that are on the C drive which is the reason why the other drives spin down since they aren't being used in the first place. Even the cd drive spins up. It's annoying that these drives are spun up for no good reason when they are not being used. I'm using IE 5 and Windows 98. Also a Celeron 400 and 64 megs of ram, 32 meg 3D Blaster Savage4, 3 harddrives(8.4, 2.1 and 345<--megs on the last one, heh!) SB 64 and that's about all the important stuff which shouldn't have anything to do with it. Just don't want to get a "more information" reply, heh.

[Axel]

That doesn't sound quite right - especially not the CD-ROM drive -

I'm very concerned that you have a virus propagating through your system with every system read access you or a program initiates.

I posted a link to the Norton virus definitions earlier today on this board - I'd say update your definitions and do a sweep ASAP before doing too much more. McAfee also has a recent DAT update posted a few days ago on the same board.

Other than that, I can't think of any reason it should be accessing all of your drives unless you were experiencing some type of other system error - did you flash your BIOS lately??

[Axel]

Do you possibly have an active virus checker going that might check every drive with any download you make?

[Alzarius]

Actually, this has been going on for quite some time. It was like this before I got my new 8.4 drive a month ago and reinstalled Windows on that one. I have yet to reinstall the virus program since then, but will soon anyway. But it never found any viruses... Anyway, it only does it when I hand type in a url. No other time. It doesn't actually DO anything though. I just find it annoying that it's apinning up drives needlessly. They do spin back down in their alotted inactivity time though since they aren't being used. It's almost like the computer is making everything active just in case the url calls something from those drives. But of course that still doesn't help trying to figure out how to stop it from doing that. If it IS some sort of virus, it has got to be the weirdest one I've ever heard of. Spinning up drives only when you type a url does seem fairly pointless, even if it was a liquored up, drugged out virus programmer. Haw!

[Alzarius]

Actually, this has been going on for quite some time. It was like this before I got my new 8.4 drive a month ago and reinstalled Windows on that one. I have yet to reinstall the virus program since then, but will soon anyway. But it never found any viruses... Anyway, it only does it when I hand type in a url. No other time. It doesn't actually DO anything though. I just find it annoying that it's apinning up drives needlessly. They do spin back down in their alotted inactivity time though since they aren't being used. It's almost like the computer is making everything active just in case the url calls something from those drives. But of course that still doesn't help trying to figure out how to stop it from doing that. If it IS some sort of virus, it has got to be the weirdest one I've ever heard of. Spinning up drives only when you type a url does seem fairly pointless, even if it was a liquored up, drugged out virus programmer. Haw!