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Originally posted by ShawnZ
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Without a hard disk light you wont (easly) notice all these kind of things (unless you constantly run a hard disk monitor).
you shouldn't be relying on your hard disk LED as a virus scanner. even suggesting the possibility that it may somehow assist you in detecting malicious activity is one of the stupider ideas i've heard.
I did NOT say, nor suggested, to RELY on it as a virus scanner anywhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I said it can be a FIRST INDICATION for WHATEVER that MIGHT be out of the ordinary (which is not neccesairly a virus to begin with anwyays). Just as your computer making funny noises might be a first indication of something being wrong. It is EXACTLY the same thing and not at all stupid in any way!
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