When available light tries to play World of Warcraft lately, the game gets minimized every few minutes. At first I thought it might be a video driver problem, but it’s something else. She noticed when she’s not playing the game that a DOS window pops up for a split second, which seems to cause the game to minimize. The window flashes by too fast to make out anything. I ran Adaware, Spybot, and Norton Antivirus, and while they caught some things the problem persists. I checked the Norton log, and it says that taskmgr.exe attempted an unauthorized access to lucoms.exe, which is a component of Norton. The log only lists one such event, but the problem happened several times. I looked in the Symantec virus database about taskmgr.exe viruses and found some, but I assume the Norton scan would have checked all those. I manually checked a few of the regkeys and system files against the database, but didn’t find any problems there.
The suggestion to use different engines to scour your computer is a good one. AVG finds things that NAV doesn’t, and MS Anti Spyware finds things that Ad Aware does not. I assume that NAV and Ad Aware find things that AVG and MSAS do not.
However, your issue may not be spyware related.
Check your task manager settings. Is it scheduled to start an up date or scan or what-have-you during the times when this stuiff happens?
I haven’t tried the MS Antispyware tool yet, but I disabled Windows Messenger and that seemed to mostly fix the problem. I’m still researching it though.