Thanks.

It could be your anti-virus program, or it could be FindFast. FindFast is/was part of Microsoft Office and scans the hard drive periodically to find all the word and excel documents you have. Then office uses the index of these documents when you want to open a file. Supposedly, this saves time.

Hit: CTRL-ALT-DEL

When the menu window pops-up, it will list what programs that are running at the time.

Check your Task Scheduler (find right bottom corner of screen, icon is one of those next to clock). It's probably Norton or some such running a scan.

There is a great little program called Task Info. Small but efficient. Once you load it, it provides a list of everything that is currently *running* on your computer. You should be able to tell what is doing the check. They have a free trial on it so you can use it to find out. http://www.iarsn.com/index.html#/download.html

I went and downloaded Zone Alarm and installed it to prevent hackers storing their garbage on our hard drives after we went to a cable modem. Zone Alarm is a free download (available here) which has an interesting feature. It asks you before it allows a program on your computer to access the internet. Since we use Netscape, I became really, really curious when Zone Alarm kept asking if we would allow Internet Explorer to access the Internet. when Internet Explorer was supposedly not running, even in the background. I would appreciate anyone explaining this to me. I still do not allow IE access.

Hmmmmmmmm......

Start; settings; Control Panel; Fast Find

Check on the interval schedule.

That might be what is running automatically.

Go here -- http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk.

And click on Startup Tips.

I found 27 programs running on my PC due to various applications loading their junk programs at startup. I was able to shut off half of them. My system ran faster too!

I went to the Task Info website and I have to say, "Wow, what a neat program!"

This, I gotta try! And only twelve bucks! Cheap at twice the price!

With BlackIce Defender, it gives me the option to ban FOREVER. I do.

If ya really like free look at AVG at Grisoft.com

It's a very good AV program that IMHO is better than Norton or Macfee AV's. All updates and the AVG program for private use is..........have I said FREE !

Ditto on the ZA.....Stay Safe !

Click Start,click run, type msconfig,in the box that comes up click startup,
uncheck anything you don't need to load at startup,this may solve your problem
it may also speed up boot time.

Netbus (just kidding). Task scheduler. Might also disable the restore feature in ME.

Went to startup tips and found a wealth of information. I bookmarked everything in sight. Thanks!

I had BlackIce but it doesn't allow outgoing blocks -- and it costs $$$. Zone Alarm is free and also allows permanent blocks. It's just that I like to know what's going on - not I that I understand the detail.........

Another great site to explore! I've gotta get off this thread or that's all I'm gonna be doin' this weekend is checking out all this neat free stuff!

This is a little off topic but might be helpfull to some.

I use Zone Alarm and I received an E-Mail from them with a special offer (now expired) that offered Zone Alarm Pro and a program called Pest Patrol.

Pest Patrol is a program that seeks out spyware installed (unknown to you) on your computer.  You are given the option to eliminate the spyware if you wish, which I wish.  When I installed Pest Patrol I found 5 spyware cookies on my computer and have since had another one show up.

You use Pest Patrol kind of like a virus program.  You run it whenever you wish and it will check your hard drive for any spyware  Like a virus program you go to there site for any updates on new spyware.  It's a good program for cleaning out any spyware that gets put on your computer.

If you value your privacy and don't believe anyone has the right to track your computer usage then I recommend this program.

Zone Alarm Pro is nice to.  It will do a whosis for you.  I just got a hit on Zone Alarm and looked it up.  Here is the info it gave me.

Whois Lookup of 212.150.85.220
 % This is the RIPE Whois server.
% The objects are in RPSL format.
% Please visit http://www.ripe.net/rpsl for more information.
% Rights restricted by copyright.
% See http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/copyright.html

inetnum:      212.150.85.216 - 212.150.85.223
netname:      EMEKYIZ-1
descr:        Emek Yizrael Regional Council
country:      IL
admin-c:      YM491-RIPE
tech-c:       OM1077-RIPE
status:       ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by:       RIPE-NCC-NONE-MNT
changed:      dbenjamin@barakitc.co.il 20000619
source:       RIPE

person:       Yenon Meler
address:      Emek Yizrael Regional Council
address:      P.O.Box 90000
address:      Afula 18120 Israel
phone:        +972 6 6520111
fax-no:       +972 6 6520000
nic-hdl:      YM491-RIPE
changed:      registrar@ns.il 20000606
source:       RIPE

person:       Orit Militanu
address:      Barak ITC
address:      Israel
phone:        + 972 3 9001162
fax-no:       +972 3 9001515
nic-hdl:      OM1077-RIPE
notify:       dbenjamin@barak.net.il
changed:      dbenjamin@barak.net.il 19990825
source:       RIPE

I have no idea why I should be getting a hit from this address.

WarHawk42

I Agree with what's above.

It's most likely your Anti Virus Software or a Seceduled Task.

Try disabling your AV software around the time it happens (don't download anything though till you turn it back on) and see if it helps..

If not, look through your scheduled tasks.. and use the process of elimination.

'kay, WarHawk.....whadja do?

Er, hmmmmmm, gee, golly gee.....hmmmmmm, (cough), with those names, ahem, er, ah,......could the Mossad be checking up on ya?

Well I just woke up ole Orit..........nahhhh not really .

I have the Freebee ZA and as long as it keeps em out I really don't care who they are albeit a nice feature for those that do wanna know.

I figure if No Such Agency want's to listen to my verbage all they are gonna do is call themselves Sally Jones from Middleville USA anyhow. I tried the pop up killer software but it seem to have a few conflicts with ME.

Stay Safe !