Hi, for the past few weeks at 35 minutes past the hour (every hour), a cmd window appears and disappears in a split second. The window duration is only long enough to see the outline.
I'm running Norton 360 on Windows 7 Pro.
I've done a netstat -a but cannot see any iffy connections.
Do I need to be concerned?
Hi Hugh
Thanks for your very useful reply.
I'm fairly sure it's Symantec Antimalware occurring every hour after logo on.
I've always got a lot of open browsers and files for my work, so I'm doing a restart later today. I'll then watch to see if the time increment changes to correspond with the re-logon time.
I'll let you know here soon.
Simon
IDG
I don't know if you should be concerned but It appears from a search on crontab (which I think is a LINUX command) and crontab in Windows that this is to do with Scheduled Tasks which is something that is in Windows. Have you used LINUX in some way on this machine?
Here's a link to a discussion about setting up crontab commands in Windows which may help you to look in your system and find out what it has set.
You might also learn something if you typed Scheduled Tasks in the Windows 7 START search box -- it gave me a link to Scheduled Tasks and although the list is miles long it showed me how certain things could be set by utilities etc to reoccur at every XX minutes after either a certain time or certain event first happens.
But I'd be beware of changing something without knowing why it is set and whether it is essential. Bear in mind also that Norton products to set things to happen at certain intervals and you can probably check that in the N360 Settings.
I'd try disabling defragging if that is set to ON since it isn't really useful and it merely triggers something that is already in Windows. Likewise for any cleanup jobs for which there are better free utilities over which you do have control.
Have you thought of upgrading from N360 to the current generation of Norton Security partly because the old Norton products are no longer fully supported with updates and are less and less likely to be able to cope with newer attacks on our systems.
If you have a lot of unexpired N360 subscription time, the N360 Key will activate a new installation of the Norton Security products including the Premium version I think but am not 100% certain -- it's the version you would need if you use the OnLine Storage feature in N360. However you don't get more than the number of devices you have paid for with your N360.
Other wise it will activate the lower version of current Norton Security.