At Shutdown: 15000 files open by other users...

I am having a persistent problem where sometimes when I shut down, I get a
message saying that 1 user is connected and 15 000 + files are open. I do
have the computer networked to one other 98se box.

Both boxes are 98se. I'm behind a Netgear wireless router (using the wired
connections with these machines) and am running Zonealarm and Norton
Antivirus 4.0. I keep Norton updated, and have run scans on both machines in
safe mode. I've also run safe mode scans in Ad-Aware and Spybot. As far as I
can tell, the system is clean.

Is there some bug in 98se networking that might be causing the one system to
"open" all the files on the other computer? Or, might it be a problem with
the system itself, mistakenly seeing all these files as being open?

I'm hoping it's not a virus or trojan, but I'm very close to the point of
backing up, formatting both systems and starting fresh.

To follow-up...

Computer A has the problem. Computer B shares the network with it.

I rebooted both systems, then turned on netwatcher. As soon as I played a
..wma file on computer B from a file on computer A, Netwatch crashed. I then
shut down computer A and it gave me the "there are 15, 175 files open by
another user" message. Is anyone aware of a trojan vulnerability in .wma
files, or in Windows Media Player, itself?

Do you have "file and print sharing" enabled in your network stack?

"Tweek" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I am having a persistent problem where sometimes when I shut down, I get a
> message saying that 1 user is connected and 15 000 + files are open. I do
> have the computer networked to one other 98se box.
>
> Both boxes are 98se. I'm behind a Netgear wireless router (using the wired
> connections with these machines) and am running Zonealarm and Norton
> Antivirus 4.0. I keep Norton updated, and have run scans on both machines
in
> safe mode. I've also run safe mode scans in Ad-Aware and Spybot. As far as
I
> can tell, the system is clean.
>
> Is there some bug in 98se networking that might be causing the one system
to
> "open" all the files on the other computer? Or, might it be a problem with
> the system itself, mistakenly seeing all these files as being open?
>
> I'm hoping it's not a virus or trojan, but I'm very close to the point of
> backing up, formatting both systems and starting fresh.
>
>
>