re: WARNING: Spyware of the worst kind.
Friday, June 30, 2006 at 12:35 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Anon
(1 messages posted)
You didn't hear this from me, but here's the real scoop on the xerox folder as well
as other ghost/empty directories. They are well hidden functional spyware programs,
created at MS for the sole purpose of ghosting your computer data as well as collecting
every url you visit. Information is sent each time you reboot and logon or once
every 6 hours, whichever occurs first to the MS and the NSA for data collection purposes.
I kid you not. Beware and good luck in thwarting this.
On Monday, December 3, 2001 at 2:16 am, Mark Stephenson wrote:
>
>Here's an interesting one that I'd like someone's idea's on.
>
>XP has created loads of empty directories in my program files dir that I don't want
>and I can't delete them.
>
>I'm admin on the box so there should be no problems but the error messages that
I
>get (which I can't remember at this point) suggests that there are services accessing
>these empty directories.
>
>So I've rooted around looking for things but find no way of doing it.
>
>I installed the Recovery Option and cannot delete these directories there either.
>
>Example of these directory's are \program files\xerox\nwwia and msn gaming.
>
>And I've never had anything made by xerox on my machine and can find no reference
>to Xerox in the registry.
>
>I've tried to shut down as many services as possible and I've changed the rights
>to these directories but to no avial, they just reset themselves.
>
>Has anyone else come across this problem?
>
>Cheers
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