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re: XP - Spyware.. Hmmmm... Thursday, October 17, 2002 at 9:35 pm 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? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP - Spyware.. Hmmmm... Thursday, October 17, 2002 at 10:45 pm Posted by jagged ben (3536 messages posted) XP will replace most files in your Windows directory or it's subdirectories when you try to replace them. It's called file protection. I'm betting you could rename (and delete, if you still desire to) inetinfo.exe from Safe Mode. BTW, this program doesn't appear to exist on my computer. I have XP Home. 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? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP - Spyware.. Hmmmm... Thursday, October 17, 2002 at 11:31 pm Posted by walt (26 messages posted) old news zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz 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? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP - Spyware.. Hmmmm... Sunday, October 20, 2002 at 11:28 am Posted by Mindbomb (3 messages posted) Then why bother replying? STFU On Thursday, October 17, 2002 at 11:31 pm, walt wrote: >old news zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP - Spyware.. Hmmmm... Sunday, October 20, 2002 at 11:30 am Posted by Mindbomb (3 messages posted) Yeah, if no information is collected, then whats up with the constant connections to sa.windows.com when nothing is opened. I was able to delete the file inetinfo.exe by opening a text file, and renaming it to inetinfo.exe - deleting the original, and copying the new one over .. quickly .. :) No telling what they are doing.. I'm going back to 2000.. lol >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? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum