Win 98 machine constantly writing to disk

I have a machine that is running windows 98. The machine
has become sluggish and hangs very often. I suspected a
stealth virus. After updating and running virus checks
several time I found nothing. I updated the applications
on the machine and still nothing. I can run scandisk from
the command prompt and it shows no problems either. I
cannot run scandisk from windows or defrag from windows.
When I run defrag the machine is constantly writing to the
drive so it starts over and over. Then a dialog box pops
up and tells me that there are other errors that need to
be fixed before defrag can be ran. I still think that the
machine has a stealth virus on it but my virus check isn't
finding anything. I would greatly appreciate any help and
I thank anyone for their help in advance.

Probably too many programs running in background. Try running
scandisk/defrag in safe mode.

--
Stan
"If it ain't broke don't fix it"
"Jesse13579" wrote in message
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I have a machine that is running windows 98. The machine
has become sluggish and hangs very often. I suspected a
stealth virus. After updating and running virus checks
several time I found nothing. I updated the applications
on the machine and still nothing. I can run scandisk from
the command prompt and it shows no problems either. I
cannot run scandisk from windows or defrag from windows.
When I run defrag the machine is constantly writing to the
drive so it starts over and over. Then a dialog box pops
up and tells me that there are other errors that need to
be fixed before defrag can be ran. I still think that the
machine has a stealth virus on it but my virus check isn't
finding anything. I would greatly appreciate any help and
I thank anyone for their help in advance.

I would download ad-aware and run that, I bet you have
hundreds of adware, spyware and malware on your machine;
some of which are probably running ar services at startup
and bogging your system down.

Tony

-----Original Message-----
I have a machine that is running windows 98. The machine
has become sluggish and hangs very often. I suspected a
stealth virus. After updating and running virus checks
several time I found nothing. I updated the applications
on the machine and still nothing. I can run scandisk
from
the command prompt and it shows no problems either. I
cannot run scandisk from windows or defrag from windows.
When I run defrag the machine is constantly writing to
the
drive so it starts over and over. Then a dialog box pops
up and tells me that there are other errors that need to
be fixed before defrag can be ran. I still think that
the
machine has a stealth virus on it but my virus check
isn't
finding anything. I would greatly appreciate any help
and
I thank anyone for their help in advance.


.

Try these adware and spyware removal and preventer programs.
They are free.
Download,install,update and THEN run:

AdAware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

Spybot Search & Destroy
http://security.kolla.de/

Spyware Blaster
http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html

"Jesse13579" wrote in message
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I have a machine that is running windows 98. The machine
has become sluggish and hangs very often. I suspected a
stealth virus. After updating and running virus checks
several time I found nothing. I updated the applications
on the machine and still nothing. I can run scandisk from
the command prompt and it shows no problems either. I
cannot run scandisk from windows or defrag from windows.
When I run defrag the machine is constantly writing to the
drive so it starts over and over. Then a dialog box pops
up and tells me that there are other errors that need to
be fixed before defrag can be ran. I still think that the
machine has a stealth virus on it but my virus check isn't
finding anything. I would greatly appreciate any help and
I thank anyone for their help in advance.

When you say you ran Scandisk from a command prompt, do you mean that you ran it
from a reboot into MS-DOS Mode (and not from a DOS window in Windows)?

Dis you do a surface scandisk in DOS Mode?
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

"Jesse13579" wrote in message
...
I have a machine that is running windows 98. The machine
has become sluggish and hangs very often. I suspected a
stealth virus. After updating and running virus checks
several time I found nothing. I updated the applications
on the machine and still nothing. I can run scandisk from
the command prompt and it shows no problems either. I
cannot run scandisk from windows or defrag from windows.
When I run defrag the machine is constantly writing to the
drive so it starts over and over. Then a dialog box pops
up and tells me that there are other errors that need to
be fixed before defrag can be ran. I still think that the
machine has a stealth virus on it but my virus check isn't
finding anything. I would greatly appreciate any help and
I thank anyone for their help in advance.