RE: Help, possible rootkit

["Tony Langdon (ATC)" <tlangdon () atctraining com au>]

> This kind of intermittent behavior _might_ indicate that a 
> piece of hardware in your system is getting flakey on its way 
> to failure.  I have seen an HPUX and a LINUX system behave 
> similarly when hardware involved with hard drives and hard 
> drive control began to fail.  Some one who has seen a 
> hardware failure on a system with your OS may be able to shed 
> more light on this kind of problem for you.  HTH.

I concur.  I have seen extremely slow operation and "jumpy" mouse
behaviour/system non responsive intermittently (several seconds on/off) on
NT boxes with a failing disk.  I'd be surprised if XP didn't behave the same
way on a flaky disk.