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Old 03-25-2004, 08:12 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Outdoors cdrw opening and closing by its self?

Does any one know how to fix a cd rw drive that keeps opening and close all on its own? I heard it might be a virus.

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Old 03-25-2004, 08:22 PM   #2 (permalink)
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If it might be a virus, I recommend you do a virus scan!!!

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

ASAP! It will detect and remove most virus' but some you may have to download special removal programs to completely be rid of...
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Old 03-26-2004, 09:08 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Welcome to TechIMO!

It may be a virus but I would check if it's a prank program.

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Possibly a virus, though I never heard of that? You may want to run a virus program such as Norton and run an Ad-aware scan on your system to detect spyware/adware.

Could be a prank program since the Windows operating system does let you eject your drive from Windows. The prank program could preform an eject without your interation. Does the eject happen at certain times, or just random.
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ive pranked some of my friends by sending them a file through AIM so i can open and close there cd drives... you can control the speed and everything... so yea... virus/trojan
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last april fools I did make a program that would open your cd drive in an infinate loop but it would go away when you rebooted...but anyways it was still detected as a virus and removed...so yah that should be able to be fixed by a virus scan
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You know what. After careful review and much thinking, and contemplating. Also the previous threads I have come to one conclusion.
It's probably a virus, I recommend you do a virus scan to eliminate the problem.

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