USB Hard Dive Activity

I powered on my backup 1TB hard drive this AM after not using it for a
few days, and I noticed it stayed acrive for a good 15 minutes with
its blue LED flashing, and making noise. Now it is quiet.
Why was that? Curious.
Johnny

wrote:
I powered on my backup 1TB hard drive this AM after not using it for a
few days, and I noticed it stayed acrive for a good 15 minutes with
its blue LED flashing, and making noise. Now it is quiet.
Why was that? Curious.
Johnny

And the name of your "real-time AV" is ?

And its policy towards freshly mounted storage is ? Scan ?
Scan when you execute an EXE ? Ignore ?

Does the partition have an autorun policy ?

Does the top level have a lot of videos, requiring
that Explorer prepare thumbnails of the videos ?
And place the thumbnails so representative icons
are present on the drive ? And an entry in "desktop.ini"
indicates a "video view" should be used with the folder ?

Make sure autoplay and/or autorun are disabled on the
OS, as they're a potential malware vector.

I'm sure you can think of a few things.

If you're running Everything.exe search program, perhaps
it just generated a search index ? Most of the time is
spent collecting file size info - collecting names only
takes two seconds. But the file sizes require scanning
the whole disk.

While the OS may have a scheduled defragmentation, it's
not likely this happened to trip when you plugged in.
I've not seen that happen with USB disks.

The most likely answer is your AV.

Paul

On Thu, 06 Apr 2017 07:57:46 -0400, Paul
wrote:

wrote:
I powered on my backup 1TB hard drive this AM after not using it for a
few days, and I noticed it stayed acrive for a good 15 minutes with
its blue LED flashing, and making noise. Now it is quiet.
Why was that? Curious.
Johnny

And the name of your "real-time AV" is ?

And its policy towards freshly mounted storage is ? Scan ?
Scan when you execute an EXE ? Ignore ?

Does the partition have an autorun policy ?

Does the top level have a lot of videos, requiring
that Explorer prepare thumbnails of the videos ?
And place the thumbnails so representative icons
are present on the drive ? And an entry in "desktop.ini"
indicates a "video view" should be used with the folder ?

Make sure autoplay and/or autorun are disabled on the
OS, as they're a potential malware vector.

I'm sure you can think of a few things.

If you're running Everything.exe search program, perhaps
it just generated a search index ? Most of the time is
spent collecting file size info - collecting names only
takes two seconds. But the file sizes require scanning
the whole disk.

While the OS may have a scheduled defragmentation, it's
not likely this happened to trip when you plugged in.
I've not seen that happen with USB disks.

The most likely answer is your AV.

Paul

Thanks for info.
JW