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Hi!!!

Whenever I Connect To Internet , My Floppy Drive Starts Making A Noise , As If Some Program Is Trying To Access It. Please Help!!!


I Can See No Program Which Can Do This And My Spybot Scan Is Clean

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As suggested, real‑time security tools are a common cause, but Explorer, shell extensions, mapped drives, services or scheduled tasks can also open A: when the network state changes. The fastest way to stop guessing is to capture which process actually opens the floppy device.

A practical approach:

  • Run Process Monitor (elevated) and add a filter for Path begins with A:\ (Include). Clear the log, reproduce the network event, then inspect the captured events for the process name and call stack. That shows exactly which component accessed the drive.
  • Check mapped drives with net use and remove any accidental mapping to A:. Use Autoruns to disable non‑Microsoft shell extensions or startup items that reference removable media.
  • If the trace points to an AV/scanner, check its logs or temporarily disable its removable‑media scanning (only as a short test) and re-run the capture.

Useful utilities: Process Monitor and Autoruns for tracing and disabling items, and Microsoft Safety Scanner for an offline check if malware is suspected. These tools make it straightforward to identify and then remove the component that is probing the floppy instead of guessing.

Process Monitor
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Are you running some type of Antivirus program?

That's one particular type of program that I've seen exhibit that behaviour.

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I Have Norton Antivirus 2004 , I Have Been Using It For A Long Time.

This Only Happened Yesterday!!!

Please Help!!!!

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