Strange disk accesses--System? Init? Virus?

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From: K. Fritz Ruehr
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1989 17:09

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I am experiencing intermittent disk accesses on my Mac Plus for which I have
no explanation and which I fear might belie an infection of some sort.  The
accesses happen at fairly regular intervals of about 5 mins. and seem to be 
independent of the current application.

I am running system 6.0.2 on a stock Mac Plus with a Seagate-based Ehman
drive and a Pract. Periph. modem as my only peripherals.  I have numerous
CDEVs and INITs installed, but I can get this behavior even after emptying
all of these from the System Folder into a separate folder and re-booting.  

I run Disinfectant on all software I download and occassionally on the whole
hard drive, so a viral infection seems unlikely.  Perhaps this behavior is
part of the normal functioning of the drive or the System?  

I have looked around for a utility which would give me some information about
the disk access (read/write, where it's coming from, etc.), but have found
nothing appropriate.

Any ideas?  I will post a summary of the results if I figure out what is
going on.  Thanks.

  --  Fritz Ruehr
      kfr@dip.eecs.umich.edu.UUCP

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Subject: Strange disk accesses--System? Init? Virus?
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Date: 17 Sep 89 17:09:20 GMT
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