Fljotsdale wrote:that my computer is being used remotely. I could just be paranoid, of course. Or it might be something perfectly normal and legit... I dunno.
I can quite often hear a programme running, even when I'm not doing anything, and even when not on-line - as, for instance, over the past few minutes - and it is NOT my antivirus, because that only runs once a day.
How can I find out what is running when I hear the noise? I know there is a way to find out the currently running programmes; I've been told how before, but I forget...
Can you help, please?
If by "program running" you mean you can hear your harddisk spin up/down and work - then it can be down to the indexing service in Windows.
Try right clicking your drive in Windows Explorer and check if the checkmark for indexing is set. That is a possible solution.
If you run Vista, you'll experience the disk spinning up/down a lot and it isn't automatically a problem, even with indexing turned off.
Otherwise, as suggested by mr_sir - check the task manager to see if a program is listed on there as running. Can be some update processes or something.
And of course, try to run some other form of anti-virus software then your normal to check up if you've been infected by a virus/trojan.
If it is harddisk spinning up/down and it is malicious I doubt it is "spy ware", but if indeed malicious it sounds as part of a bot-network or trojan and various anti-virus software should track it, unless very advanced. But this is only if it is some malicious software.
My guess however is most likely the indexing services in Windows and common windows behaviour. It usually is.
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