re: XP - Spyware.. Hmmmm...
Thursday, October 17, 2002 at 9:35 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by David
(5 messages posted)
http://sa.windows.com/privacy/ Search Companion-- "No information is ever collected
by Search Companion when you search your local system, LAN, or intranet for any reason."
Ha! Spyware that you can't get rid of... what's next?
On Thursday, October 17, 2002 at 8:55 pm, Mindbomb wrote:
>Odd things arise from Windows XP from time to time - especially if your net to the
>NT platform. But this evening I was doing some things with a new router, and was
>trying to match an open port to a process, and that process was inetinfo.exe. This
>process is started with any IIS application or service. So they say. After setting
>all IIS services to disabled, this inetinfo.exe process continues to load when the
>system is restarted. My problem with this, is that it's sending data of some sort
>to sa.windows.com - WHY? Something else thats odd - go to the services manager,
>stop all services that start with IIS. Set them to disabled in the properties,
and
>check your processes - if inetinfo.exe is still running, terminate it. Now go to
>\WINNT\system32\inetsrv and delete inetinfo.exe.....wait a few seconds, and it's
>back. On reboot it will be loaded regardless of IIS services. Why do they want
>a sevice that is useless for non-webserver machines running all the time? I think
>it's a form of spyware.. Microsoft's own.. Any ideas?
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- XP - Spyware.. Hmmmm... (Mindbomb: Thursday, October 17, 2002 at 8:55 pm)
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