As I sit here on DU

[undergroundpanther]

My hard drive keeps clicking on and off.Never happened before. Wonder why? I guess Agent Mike is looking.Or what?

Hey Mike,I don't give as shit, I hate all you fascists, So Fuck off.

[katsy]

1. knock... knock...

email from foley.

[Wonk]

2. Could be on the verge of failure. Backup any important data NOW.

I had a HD with a similar symptom, and was just barely able to back up to other discs what I needed to keep before it gave up the ghost completely.

[puerco-bellies]

5. Same here. Back up all important data NOW.

When I heard mine do that I wondered what it was at first. It only took a few boot-ups to completely fail.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

3. Or you could be reasonable and just realize your hard drive is fucked.

The only paranoia you should have is losing your data.

[kenny blankenship]

4. could be many many things

adware/spyware currently infesting almost every Windows machine on the planet, or scheduled filesystem indexing job, or app/OS memory leaks causing your paging file to be used, or a slowly failing harddrive, or an application that you thought you quit which just won't die, and on and on.
If you hear the drive clicking and spinning up and down that could be a symptom of a dying drive causing the IDE bus to reset. I once had two harddrives that just did not want to share the IDE channel and it sounded like that, click-and-spindown click-and-spinup at intervals a few minutes apart.

[Omphaloskepsis]

6. Take the fucking tin-foil off it...

They get hot and need to breathe.

[President Jesus]

19. Ok. That's comedy gold. n/t

[Viva_La_Revolution]

7. hard drive failure imminant...

or you have spy ware. run Ad-aware and Spybot. If they don't find anything, prepare to buy a new hard drive real soon.

[shadowknows69]

8. Du is the only site I surf that crashes on me on a regular basis

I'm not talking about heavy traffic crashes it just gives me one of those "report this to microsoft" errors and blinks out.

[zonkers]

9. When is the last time you cleaned dust out of your pc fan?

[undergroundpanther]

14. bout 15 minutes ago

wasen't much there.

[shadowknows69]

10. Actually mine is doing it too

it just accesses it every few seconds or so.

[undergroundpanther]

11. I checked everything and it's all fine

Fans ok,Harddrives ok, Nothing going on. Everything has been backed up...Just to cover ass..

Weird.

[Moochy]

12. Install one of these

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,126890-page,1-c,spyware/article.html

http://www.sunbelt-software.com/CounterSpyEnterprise.cfm I like this one alot, found and removed lots of Browser helper Objects and other crap.

Stop using IE. You probably have some malware. Get Firefox.

It's probably not Agent Mike, it's probably Agent Lee, a freelance zero-day Warez d00d.

[undergroundpanther]

13. I use firefox already

And thunderbird.
I got spyware. I run it like every week.Same thing with virus stuff and I am really particular about stuff, It's true, I get no spam.

[Moochy]

15. Excellent! IE is the devil!!!

Which anti-spyware program? I had to install two , Ewido and CounterSpy to finally get rid of some malware that had infested this computer.

Barring all that, check out:

Hijack This http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/#Top

and compare the list of stuff it spits out with others on the countless helper forums that folks have setup in order to manually detect and counter malware.

It's a brave new world, I thought running just one was enough. :scared:

When all that fails just play an MP3 to cover up the sound of the Hard drive :D

[ryanus]

16. It's gonna die soon

Don't turn it off. Get all your data onto USB drives or something.

/replaced 2 hard drives passt few weeks

[wundermaus]

17. what to do...

Hard drives fail... sometimes right away, sometimes taking months... typical life span is 3 to 5 years... depending on ambient temp, use, and position of the planets... When they start to click... back up your data right away... do not delay... do it today... then find your OS and Apps recovery CD's or be prepared to pay $30-$100 for a copy from the manufacturer... Always buy a Hard drive the same size or Larger, but not too much larger... some systems do not support very large drives. Some Hard drive manufacturers provide utilities with the replacement drive that makes copying "everything" from your old Hard Drive to your new Drive a fairly simple process... while other hard drives are "nightmares" to configure and setup. I use Western Digital hard drives... Pay attention to all the details on the instructions... cables, jumpers, etc... If you do not know what you are doing... hand it off to a tech with references... none other need touch your system... I restore a new hard drive (Install the OS, Install Applications, and Install all Critical Updates and latest Drivers) for about $100 plus the cost of the hard drive... prices vary all over the map... depending on the skill, experience, and compassion of the tech. - Good Luck.

[lvx35]

18. Back up, then try to isolate the process.

Use process explorer:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html
and use ethereal to analyze any outgoing network traffic:
http://www.ethereal.com/download.html
between these, you'll find a lot of spyware...I'm all for civil liberties, but there are a lot of spooky types out there who do not work for uncle Sam, and its good to get a handle on them too.

[Bluebear]

20. Here I sit, brokenhearted...

Sorry.

[chat_noir]

21. Did you hear the one about proudbushsupporter?

DESERTER: THE STORY OF GEORGE W. BUSH AFTER HE QUIT THE TEXAS AIR NATIONAL GUARD http://www.glcq.com/bush_at_arpc1.htm











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