What is Explorer doing at startup?

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Dario de Judicibus

When I boot my system, I experience some huge hard disk activity. If I look
at processes, I can easily see that the responsible is Windows Explorer. But
what Explorer is doing and why? It may lenghten startup by 5 minutes too. Is
there a way to know WHO is doing WHAT in my PC?
 
"Sparda" <[email protected]> ha scritto nel messaggio
| Have you been using intenret explorer to access the internet?

I use both IE and Firefox. But I do not think I have any malware. No attempt
is done to access any port. I have firewall, anti-virus, ad-aware and
variour anti-spyware tools. I regularly check my system. I suspect is some
freeware that start some indexing... Maybe the Free launch Bar. Any idea how
to verify that? Any "debug" tool around?

DdJ
 
Dario de Judicibus said:
"Sparda" <[email protected]> ha scritto nel messaggio
| Have you been using intenret explorer to access the internet?

I use both IE and Firefox. But I do not think I have any malware. No
attempt
is done to access any port. I have firewall, anti-virus, ad-aware and
variour anti-spyware tools. I regularly check my system. I suspect is some
freeware that start some indexing... Maybe the Free launch Bar. Any idea
how
to verify that? Any "debug" tool around?

DdJ
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Free launch Bar? If you've got some sort of freeware toolbar installed, then
you most likely got spyware of some sort. I've never seen a free toolbar
that didn't come with free spyware.
 
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D.Currie said:
Free launch Bar? If you've got some sort of freeware toolbar
installed, then you most likely got spyware of some sort. I've
never
seen a free toolbar that didn't come with free spyware.
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Never? Take a look at Dave's Quick Search Toolbar and Desktop
Sidebar. Both are free and neither comes with spware.
 
Ken Blake said:
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Never? Take a look at Dave's Quick Search Toolbar and Desktop Sidebar.
Both are free and neither comes with spware.
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Well, that's one I've never seen, for sure. I don't see a lot of use for
extra toolbars, myself.
 
"D.Currie" <[email protected]> ha scritto nel messaggio

| Free launch Bar? If you've got some sort of freeware toolbar installed,
then
| you most likely got spyware of some sort. I've never seen a free toolbar
| that didn't come with free spyware.

I think this one is "clean": http://www.freelaunchbar.com/
I am a freeware developer and I have no malware o spyware in my software.
Not all freeware software are Trojan Horses.

DdJ
 
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