Unknown program on task bar

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I noticed that my screen saver was never running ever after I left my
computer unattended for several hours. This is not the problem, but a
sympton of what I believe is the main issue. Every couple of minutes a box
pops up on my task bar for about a second and then disappears. There is no
text in the box so I have no idea what it is. I assume it is some
application that is either trying to run or set to check for something
periodically. That's why the screen saver is not running I guess.

I there anyway to find out what is causing this. I've run Norton Antivirus
(clean) and Microsoft Anti-Spyware and Spybot (also OK). I've look at my
Task Manager and didn't see anything unusual there. I ran MSCONFIG and
disabled any applications (other than system apps and ones that I was
familiar with). I cleared out my "Startup" folder. I don't know what else
to do to track down this rouge application.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks.

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The Windows Security centre does that, if something is amiss, like if your
firewall is turned off or virus sigs are out of date, it flashes on briefly
"Your computer might be at risk...".

I don't know if this is the same thing you're asking about.

"Ed Hayden" <Ed Hayden@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9A7D03E5-E14D-4E26-8991-98DCC685D19F@microsoft.com...
>I noticed that my screen saver was never running ever after I left my
> computer unattended for several hours. This is not the problem, but a
> sympton of what I believe is the main issue. Every couple of minutes a
> box
> pops up on my task bar for about a second and then disappears. There is
> no
> text in the box so I have no idea what it is. I assume it is some
> application that is either trying to run or set to check for something
> periodically. That's why the screen saver is not running I guess.
>
> I there anyway to find out what is causing this. I've run Norton
> Antivirus
> (clean) and Microsoft Anti-Spyware and Spybot (also OK). I've look at my
> Task Manager and didn't see anything unusual there. I ran MSCONFIG and
> disabled any applications (other than system apps and ones that I was
> familiar with). I cleared out my "Startup" folder. I don't know what
> else
> to do to track down this rouge application.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.