Anyone experiencing their CD/DVD drive drawers opening randomly?

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Mine will open and tell me to insert a disc or not display anything - very
strange and annoying.
 
Mine will open and tell me to insert a disc or not display anything - very
strange and annoying.
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2 drives with drawers, no odd time openings (my knee has bumped the
button at times on my floor sitting mid tower machine.)
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There are also "joke" programs that you can install on a "friends" computer
that will do just this. It will drive them nuts. Now, can it be installed in
stealth mode over the internet? Don't know. But I could certainly send it as
an attachment to an e-mail. Many people I know would open the program
without question (my brother).

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Thanks - I did a reinstall and it hasn't happened yet. I don't think it
was a virus or a joke as I had just finished installing Vista when it
happened.
 
I've seen that happen before a couple of times, in both cases, in think,
on boxes running Win ME, and it seemed to just start out of the blue.
I'd not heard of the joke program before. Any links to more info on
that, Richard?
 
Been years since I have seen it. There was an article in one of the on-line
ezines that had about 8-10 different programs like that.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Those programs aren't called jokes... They're called trojans. Virtually
every known program that can be used to randomly open and close your disk
drive also includes keylogging functionality. If you have that on Vista it
is almost for sure someone who had physical access to your PC. I would make
sure you have a legitimate copy of Vista.

There's nothing funny at all about that - even from "friends".

Dale
 
Yeah, those are about as funny as they relate to PC security as is leaving
light-bright cartoon characters on bridges and subways are funny as it
relates to terrorism.

I am not a violent man but I would most likely punch anyone I had discovered
had put one of those on my PC.

Dale
 
Never said they were funny. Never said they were good. Just said that they
exist and people do have them sent to them via e-mail.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
I know. :)


Richard Urban said:
Never said they were funny. Never said they were good. Just said that they
exist and people do have them sent to them via e-mail.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
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Nah, I don't think I've hit anyone since high school.

It's just all bottled up inside... make sure you're not the one who installs
jokeware on my PC. *SMILE*
 
I thought I got a joke 3-4 years ago. A friend sent me a .mpg he said he
couldn't play. Lucky me. I unzipped it and played it. A screen popped up and
said, "Please sit and watch your files being deleted". I sat and watched.
After all, it was a joke - right. Anyway, I wasn't worried because I had
just created a full system image about 8 hours previous.

Anyway, after about 10 minutes, enough to get a cup of coffee, I killed the
program. Went to reboot. NO WAY! 1/3 of my system had been erased.

I was back in business after about 10 minutes. I still have that .mpg zipped
up somewhere on one of my 4 hard drives.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Are you even sure the friend actually sent it?


Richard Urban said:
I thought I got a joke 3-4 years ago. A friend sent me a .mpg he said he
couldn't play. Lucky me. I unzipped it and played it. A screen popped up
and said, "Please sit and watch your files being deleted". I sat and
watched. After all, it was a joke - right. Anyway, I wasn't worried because
I had just created a full system image about 8 hours previous.

Anyway, after about 10 minutes, enough to get a cup of coffee, I killed
the program. Went to reboot. NO WAY! 1/3 of my system had been erased.

I was back in business after about 10 minutes. I still have that .mpg
zipped up somewhere on one of my 4 hard drives.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
Click to expand...
 
He told me he sent it to me. He didn't know how to handle zip files. He got
it off of, you guessed it, Kazaa!

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
boe said:
Mine will open and tell me to insert a disc or not display anything - very
strange and annoying.
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No, bit mine seems to access the floppy drive every now and then for no
reason - the light comes on and you can hear it seek.

Mike
 
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