Starting this afternoon, I have been experiencing a random autoplay window that pops up from time to time and then disappears. I have no cd in my drive. I'm running xp service pack 2, on an athlon 64 system with a gig of RAM and a SATA HDD.

Here are programs that I'm almost always running:

Firefox
Java RunTime (for fantasy stats)
Picasa2
Itunes
Norton AV/Firewall

I've recently installed Adobe CS and Macromedia Studio MX2004.


I ran Spybot SD today and cleaned up a couple dozen small DSo exploits and Ad-trackers. Now according to Spybot I'm clean, but still seeing the pop-up from time to time. I built this system myself, and all my software is legal, including Norton Firewall and AV 2005.

Only today, I've been having this problem. Has anyone heard of this promblem before?

Was any of this software installed today?

Is this the legitimate AutoPlay window?

Have you checked your AutoPlay Options?

Can you do a System Restore to yesterday without affecting your programs?

Also: You might want to consider running HijackThis & posting a log in the HijackThis section.

please follow owen's Instructions and then post your log in the Spyware, Adware, Viruses and HijackThis Logs section.

None of this software was installed today. The only thing I've done today was to run Spybot SD.

I can disable auto-play on the drive, but that seems like a band-aid for what may be a bigger problem.

None of my searches brings up any precedent other than Falling's earlier thread in this section.

I am still curious what the exact window is? Does it appear to be a legitimate XP window? Do you happen to notice the light on your CD or DVD drive flash coinciding with this pop up? Or do you notice your CD or DVD drives' light flashing for no reason?

Re setting the settings of AutoPlay might just reset things if indeed this is the legitimate program. Otherwise the HijackThis route would be in order to determine the source.

Also perhaps run check disk:

start > run > cmd
in the new window type chkdsk/f
when prompted to run on boot choose Y & reboot
this will check for & fix any disk errors