# Computer virus?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-virus/276893>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 27, 2004, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-virus/276893 "2004-11-27T16:50:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Thinktank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Thinktank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thinktank)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-virus/276893/1 "2004-11-27T16:50:47Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Kymodoce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8797f3/32.png) [@Kymodoce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kymodoce)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-virus/276893/2 "2004-11-27T17:05:29Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Daizy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@Daizy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daizy)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2004, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-virus/276893/3 "2004-11-28T01:46:28Z")

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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](http://support.microsoft.com/?id=158705).

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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**Author:** ![Daizy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@Daizy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daizy)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2004, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-virus/276893/4 "2004-11-28T01:48:21Z")

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Aha! Found the link I was searching for finally.  
[Here ya go.](http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article07-037)