From: "Robert Comer" 

>I was planning to look more closely the
> next time it happened but so far that dog hasn't barked again. 

It'll wait to show itself until you forget what you were going to do about
it, that's what usually happens to me on things like that. 

> I'm not aware of any but one never knows what crapware might have
> found a home there.

I can't believe how many user's home PC's I've had to "fix" this
last year, and all but one of them was because of spyware utilities
downloaded from the internet. :(
And the one that was about that had a bunch of it on it too, but it also
had the HD going out on it. (and IBM 80G drive)

- Bob Comer


"Richard B."  wrote in message
news:3ii1uvcjt7hb93fi9ilpommsbr2kod9gkb{at}4ax.com...
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 10:57:45 -0500, "Robert Comer"
>  wrote:
>
> >Have you looked in task manager to see if something is running on the
> >affected PC's, but not on others?
>
> It has been quiet for almost a week now, so I haven't had a chance to
> investigate it further while it's active, but I don't recall seeing
> anything suspicious before.  I was planning to look more closely the
> next time it happened but so far that dog hasn't barked again. 
>
> >It could be an Autocad plugin or update that's doing it too...
>
> I'm not aware of any but one never knows what crapware might have
> found a home there.
>
> - Richard

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