The reason that I discovered this, last night when I finished up, I enabled the backup application so that my entire backup would be up to date over night.

When I check on the status this morning backups were not complete and the CPU was locked up.

The problem for the backup software, ...I turn off my network driver when I'm done working for the day. Without my network functioning, backups halted.

When I turned my network driver on .... backups continued, and very, very slow. Say what????

I tested it a couple of times...same deal ...backups lockup with network off and continue with network on.

Went to my firewall settings and blocked all WD software (which I would not normally over look). Once the permissions applied...the software runs smooth with fast backups to my target drives.

IMO, WD is stealing data.... and my new Cisco router is very temperamental with my old X86 machine.... which is yet another problem for the backup software that I need not explain.

A new 64bit machine would pass my data to the net so fast, I would never even get the hint of what was taking place.

Long live the X86...Young people are in for a big surprise with all this newself-configuring tech...and they'll never know it. TOO fast a machine and they’ll get yeah if you over look something and trust them.

doni