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This is a very interesting article. Detailing Microsoft's secret spying program: http://www.fuckmicrosoft.com/content/ms-hidden-files.shtml
A perl script to remove these files can be found at: http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?lastnode_id=3628node_id=145623
-- $|=1;while(1){print pack("h*",'75861647f302d4560275f6272797f3');sleep(1); for(1..16){for(8,32,8,7){print chr($_);}select(undef,undef,undef,.05);}}
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Yes, some of those files existed. I deleted them, without any so-far- to-be-noted damage to the Windows system. The script that you say is available at the perlmonks is not obvious to the casual observer. When I go to the URL, I find all sorts of other things, but nothing related to Windows or secret files. Q1: Is the two-line code that you have above the whole thing? If not, why don't you just publish the whole thing? (You can see that I know nothing about perl.) Q2: How does one run a perl script in Windows? Q3: What makes you think MS has access to these files? I have a firewall in my LinkSys router that should keep MS and other hackers out. Shouldn't it? BTW: I tried Opera in Windows, at work, and I liked it. Unfortunately, it did unrepairable damage to a Visual Basic file, or its component parts- .dll's or something--that somebody wrote for the company network, that took complex information from a BPCS database on an AS400 system, and made it readable in Windows. The so-called helpdesk people claim that the only way to fix the problem is to erase my hard-drive, reformat it, and reinstall Windows. Not likely, I told them. But I now have to live without this valuable program. Bah on Opera. --doug
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 01:44:58 -0500
Doug McGarrett
This is a very interesting article. Detailing Microsoft's secret spying program: http://www.fuckmicrosoft.com/content/ms-hidden-files.shtml
Yes, some of those files existed. I deleted them, without any so-far- to-be-noted damage to the Windows system. The script that you say is available at the perlmonks is not obvious to the casual observer. When I go to the URL, I find all sorts of other things, but nothing related to Windows or secret files.
Sorry, I must have copied the url wrong. Try this or the script is below. http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=145623&displaytype=displaycode ############################################### #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use File::Find; my $c=0; my @files = (); # find the files print "Processing\n"; find(\&wanted, "/"); # offer for delete: for (@files) { print "\nDelete $_?(y/n)\n"; my $r = <STDIN>; if ($r =~ /y/i) { unlink $_; print "FILE DELETED!\n"; } } sub wanted { print '.' if !$c; $c++;$c%=1000; push @files, $File::Find::name if (/index.dat/); } ###########################################################
Q2: How does one run a perl script in Windows?
On windows you need to get a free version of perl for windows. There are a few groups that provide it, but the most widely used is ActivePerl : http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/ But if you have a dual boot, just mount the partiton and run the script from linux. That way you can be sure that windows hidden subsystem isn't blocking the removal. MS are a bunch of tricksters.
Q3: What makes you think MS has access to these files? I have a firewall in my LinkSys router that should keep MS and other hackers out. Shouldn't it?
There is a big controversy going on now with WindowsXP new license agreement. It's in the fine print, only readable AFTER you open the package; and it says in effect: " you give Microsoft the right to come into your machine, while you are on the net, to UPDATE software for you". A bunch of contract lawyers say this is a bad contract , but you can't return the software once you open it. As far as firewalls go, if it's a Microsoft executable, they probably have a way of turning it off from their end. If MS has "agreements" with LinkSys, well..... you figure it out. -- $|=1;while(1){print pack("h*",'75861647f302d4560275f6272797f3');sleep(1); for(1..16){for(8,32,8,7){print chr($_);}select(undef,undef,undef,.05);}}
http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=145623&displaytype=displaycode ############################################### #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use File::Find; my $c=0; my @files = (); # find the files
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 08:16:50 -0500 I would want to caution you if you are unfamiliar with perl, that this script will run thru your entire root as wriiten. This is overkill if you just want to get your "C drive". So you should modify the script if running from linux to limit it to your C drive. Example below. print "Processing\n"; #find(\&wanted, "/"); # this line sets the directory, this one is for root find(\&wanted, "/c"); # this one is for your windows partition mounted on /c # offer for delete: for (@files) { print "\nDelete $_?(y/n)\n"; my $r = <STDIN>; if ($r =~ /y/i) { unlink $_; print "FILE DELETED!\n"; } } sub wanted { print '.' if !$c; $c++;$c%=1000; push @files, $File::Find::name if (/index.dat/); } ############################################## -- $|=1;while(1){print pack("h*",'75861647f302d4560275f6272797f3');sleep(1); for(1..16){for(8,32,8,7){print chr($_);}select(undef,undef,undef,.05);}}
At 08:16 AM 2/16/2002 -0500, you wrote:
There is a big controversy going on now with WindowsXP new license agreement. It's in the fine print, only readable AFTER you open the package; and it says in effect: " you give Microsoft the right to come into your machine, while you are on the net, to UPDATE software for you". A bunch of contract lawyers say this is a bad contract , but you can't return the software once you open it.
That is obviously a paraphrase -- does anyone have a cut-n-paste or verbatim copy of that text? I'd like to see it. ---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 10:56:47 -0600
JW
At 08:16 AM 2/16/2002 -0500, you wrote:
There is a big controversy going on now with WindowsXP new license agreement. It's in the fine print, only readable AFTER you open the package; and it says in effect: " you give Microsoft the right to come into your machine, while you are on the net, to UPDATE software for you". A bunch of contract lawyers say this is a bad contract , but you can't return the software once you open it.
That is obviously a paraphrase -- does anyone have a cut-n-paste or verbatim copy of that text? I'd like to see it.
Try this: http://www.noccc.org/bytes/minutes/v01/598.html -- $|=1;while(1){print pack("h*",'75861647f302d4560275f6272797f3');sleep(1); for(1..16){for(8,32,8,7){print chr($_);}select(undef,undef,undef,.05);}}
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