[SLE] OT How to check MSIE hidden files

list-post: mailto:suse-linux-e@suse.com X-MIME-Notice: attachments may have been removed from this message X-Mailinglist: suse-linux-e Delivered-To: mailing list suse-linux-e@suse.com Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 13:00:16 -0500 From: zentara To: suse-linux-e@suse.com X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Operating-System: SuSe Linux Subject: [SLE] OT How to check MSIE hidden files

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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