Hard drive activity would definitely make me suspicious. I use 'netstat -a' in the DOS command prompt to detect if there are any programs that are accessing the net when they shouldn't be.
My suggestion would be to copy off all the data files (only, not any of the programs) and reformat the hard drive, then install Win2000 Pro fresh, then download all the latest patches before reinstalling programs and copying your data back in. Odds sound rather good that it's a worm of some kind.
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Date: 2003-08-06 10:40 am (UTC)My suggestion would be to copy off all the data files (only, not any of the programs) and reformat the hard drive, then install Win2000 Pro fresh, then download all the latest patches before reinstalling programs and copying your data back in. Odds sound rather good that it's a worm of some kind.