[GD-Windows] Another VC problem

[Pierre T. <p.t...@wa...>]

...I am so bored....

It just happened one more time : I was starring at the screen for a good
minute, thinking hard about some design issues, when VC(6) just shut down.
No warning, no message box, one frame later it's just not here anymore. And
of course, all the delicate changes I had been doing in order to improve a
design without breaking everything are gone, it didn't save the files.

I suspect some antivirus running in the background. I thought disabling
Norton's Auto-Protect mode prevented that kind of things to happen.
Apparently, it doesn't. But why now ? Why, why ? Why deciding at 4:50 PM on
a Friday, to attack that big bad virus called VC6 ? And after all, is Norton
really guilty ? (I remember some Flipcode threads about the issue, but who
knows, it might be totally unrelated). Any idea ?

Task Manager exposes a lot of running processes. That makes me feel pretty
unsecure. Would it be "NPROTECT.EXE", ending suspicious processes without
even asking me ?

Note that I'm a newbie on W2K. I've been forced to upgrade some weeks ago
after a nasty virus actually killed my W98. I was otherwise very happy with
it (used it for years, no real issues).

I remember a site somewhere listing common painful programs one can safely
remove from the registry, to improve things, but I can't find it anymore.
Any ideas ? It divided common exes in 3 categories : "must keep", "must
remove" and "as you like" (that's the idea, not the actual names they used).
For example, let me examine the TM...  "System Idle Process" would be "must
keep", and that old "cmesys.exe" would be "must remove". I forgot to clean
my brand new W2K after installing it, that was a mistake.

I'm so bored.

Pierre