From: Deanna Berman (dberman_at_dimensional.com)
Date: Wed May 29 2002 - 06:00:53 EDT
I'll take a giant leap and guess: Battery MaxiMiser, the IBM utility
that saves battery power by disabling devices when they're not being
used.
Deanna Berman
dberman_at_dimensional.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Wells" <ajwells_at_att.net>
To: "'Bruce Markowitz'" <scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net>
Cc: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 18:11 PM
Subject: RE: what is BMMTask?
> Yes I figure it must be an IBM maintenance program, but I was just
> curious as to what it was... I heard the hard disk spinning after
about
> five minutes of inactivity and I want to make sure this is not a
defrag
> program because I don't want those running all the time... any ideas
> what this one is?
>
> Andrew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Markowitz [mailto:scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 5:10 PM
> To: Andrew Wells; thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu
> Subject: Re: what is BMMTask?
>
> I have that on a clean recovery on an A20P
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Wells" <ajwells_at_att.net>
> To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 6:11 PM
> Subject: RE: what is BMMTask?
>
>
> > This machine is new and has not received any incoming email so its
> > definitely not a virus... I have full updated NAV on this machine
as
> > well... its an IBM application, I just cant figure out what it is
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bill Morrow [mailto:penzance_at_gate.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 12:22 PM
> > To: Andrew Wells; thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu
> > Subject: Re: what is BMMTask?
> >
> > first thing to check is for a virus or a worm..
> > then use task manager to see what the path is to the app that
> offends..
> > :-)
> > i have been getting many many many KLEZ worms for weeks..
> > if you open attachments without virus checking first, well....
> >
> > <------------------------------->
> > Cordially, :-)
> > Bill Morrow
> > WEB page http://thinkpads.com
> > thinkpads.com Open Forum
> > http://www.afaonline.com:8080/webboard/$webb.exe/~2/login?
> > or go to thinkpads.com and link from there
> > E-Mail: bill at thinkpads dot com
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Andrew Wells" <ajwells_at_att.net>
> > To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 11:24 AM
> > Subject: what is BMMTask?
> >
> >
> > > Anyone know what the scheduled task "BMMTask" is? I heard my
hard
> > disk
> > > start to spin after being idle for awhile and went to check
> scheduled
> > > tasks and it seems to be an IBM program but I don't know what it
> > does...
> > > is it a maintenance program?
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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