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To: Junkyardawg who started this subject	12/7/2000 12:44:59 AM
From: mr.mark	of 110652

interesting, but i don't know to who.... right after completing the nav download of new virus definitions, i noticed that my system's cpu usage was pegged at 100%. i made a mental note of it (it rarely stays on 100% more than a few seconds), and decided to give it a few minutes. still maxed out on 100. something was going full bore, that's for sure. i used task manager (the win2000 way of seeing what's running), and i noted the one app using 98% of the resources was something called 'npnsdad.exe'. a little checking told me that was netscape smart download. i'd just used smartdownload to grab virus defs. hmmmm, it never disconnected. (now, if i didn't have three firewalls in place, i might have gotten paranoid about all this). i ended the running process (windows asks, are you sure?) <g>, and my cpu usage meter drops immediately back down to 3%. but what the heck made netscape smartdownload keep running like that? :) mark

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