Computer virus?

Factual Questions
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Hi again,
Me and my computer are having another go at it.
Actually I’m trying to be a hero and keep all the nasty …“stuff” on the web from attaching itself to my computer. Alas, I am not geeky enough yet- I have windows ME and really don’t have a big problem with it being unstable or terribly unreliable although I’d demand more if it was an “at work” computer- getting to my problem though.

I know more than the average computer user, but not as much as…err Julie heh-heh-heh… well, maybe with graphics =) dammit sorry folk attention problems…

I rarely if ever use my floppy drive, yet it will keep looking for a disk at set intervals- even when I’m not currently at my desk! It freaks me out, cuz I feel like someone snuck a trojan through all my defenses and is “having their way” with my square-headed gf =P lol

I have pestpatrol,Norton internet security, ad-aware and spybot S&D loaded and being used on here- always. I frenquently find 619 of something called “kernel” through scanning- but really this feels more like a case of me vs. city hall. I don’t know anything more than what my programs tell me- still it’s what they don’t tell me that I keep wondering about… Anyone have this problem?.. about the disk drive and all, not the rest of it =)

Help-me-if-you-cannn… thanks in adavance.

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Any chance someone has installed a program called Floppy Madness on your PC? (Google it for details).

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Is you AntiVirus set to scan your floppy? If so, you might want to stop it from doing that.

Try clearing all your Recent documents.
Right-click on the Taskbar
Select Properties.
Click on the Start Menu Programs tab. Click the Clear button.

Disable FindFast if you have it. More here.

Under System -> Performance -> File System -> Floppy Disk -> uncheck the Search for new floppy disk drives each time your computer starts box.
It’s a place to start anyhow.

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Aha! Found the link I was searching for finally.
Here ya go.