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Very high Windows 7 idle hard disk utilization

Date: 15/3/2014

For months now I've noticed that when I leave my Windows 7 machine alone for over 30 minutes the hard disk starts grinding away relentlessly. Of course if you go to investigate what it's doing all activity ceases immediately. Preventing you from finding out exactly what is going on.

I had these thoughts of possible malware or a virus infection cross my mind and so downloaded and ran Process Monitor and then left the machine sit for 50 minutes. When I came back to it sure enough the hard disk was grinding away. But now I've been logging the activity! So what's the secret process using so much disk I/O?

9:49:49.6359004 PM	MsMpEng.exe	948	ReadFile	
9:49:49.6465209 PM	MsMpEng.exe	948	ReadFile	
9:49:49.6465457 PM	MsMpEng.exe	948	ReadFile	
9:49:49.6540933 PM	MsMpEng.exe	948	ReadFile	
9:49:49.6541138 PM	MsMpEng.exe	948	ReadFile	
9:49:49.6577645 PM	MsMpEng.exe	948	ReadFile	
9:49:49.6600897 PM	MsMpEng.exe	948	ReadFile

Oh just Microsoft's anti-malware service checking all my files. "Alright... everything seems to be in order here... as you were".

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