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Old August 15th 18, 11:25 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
mechanic
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Default Do I need Windows indexing?

On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 09:10:36 -0400, Paul wrote:

You need to adjust your Indexing Options to get
the desired indexing coverage.

This is from another post and wasn't intended as a demo
or anything. You have to flip the "" next to C:
and drill down until you find items corresponding
to "Data; Temp; CSC; Temp". Then tick the missing
box so the item gets indexed.

https://s33.postimg.cc/vpyj17idr/che...g_settings.gif

In any case, the tool should not index the folder that
holds Windows.edb, as that would cause the Indexer to loop.

One of the "Data" items might be C:\ProgramData , but unless
you've adjusted your File Explorer view settings to make
system files visible or whatever, it may not show up
in a normal view of C: .

Paul


Thanks for that, I've overlooked that Control Panel option. Of
course the fact I couldn't find the file oosu10.exe was due to not
knowing the filename, not the indexing options.
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Old August 15th 18, 01:52 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
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Default Do I need Windows indexing?

mechanic wrote:
On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 09:10:36 -0400, Paul wrote:

You need to adjust your Indexing Options to get
the desired indexing coverage.

This is from another post and wasn't intended as a demo
or anything. You have to flip the "" next to C:
and drill down until you find items corresponding
to "Data; Temp; CSC; Temp". Then tick the missing
box so the item gets indexed.

https://s33.postimg.cc/vpyj17idr/che...g_settings.gif

In any case, the tool should not index the folder that
holds Windows.edb, as that would cause the Indexer to loop.

One of the "Data" items might be C:\ProgramData , but unless
you've adjusted your File Explorer view settings to make
system files visible or whatever, it may not show up
in a normal view of C: .

Paul


Thanks for that, I've overlooked that Control Panel option. Of
course the fact I couldn't find the file oosu10.exe was due to not
knowing the filename, not the indexing options.


If the file had metadata, the metadata about the EXE
might get indexed. I don't know what fields of
an EXE are in the index. Perhaps "company:" would work.

WDSAQSCheat.zip == WDSAQSCheat.pdf

http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/i...attach=406 73

company&o

It might be signed EXE files that have metadata.
There seem to be at least two kinds of EXEs in
any case.

Paul
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Old August 15th 18, 01:54 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Peter Johnson[_2_]
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Default Do I need Windows indexing?

On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 13:17:06 +0100, mechanic
wrote:


And whatever happened to Copernic and other such search engines?


I have Copernic installed because Windows wouldn't index my NAS drive.
I don't know if that is still the case.
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Old August 15th 18, 02:30 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Mayayana
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Default Do I need Windows indexing?

"Paul" wrote

| If the file had metadata, the metadata about the EXE
| might get indexed. I don't know what fields of
| an EXE are in the index. Perhaps "company:" would work.
|

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms809762.aspx

Not exactly metadata the way that's usually thought of,
but PE files (portable executable: EXE, DLL, OCX) have
an extensive header and can contain a version info field,
usually near the end of the file.
The header is mainly pointers to offsets of sections in
the file. It gets very involved. But what you're thinking of
as metadata is called version info and is an optional
resource, found in the resource table. If you open most
Windows EXEs in a hex editor you can see the data by
finding the string VS_VERSION_INFO, typically near the
end of the file. It's what shows on the right-click -
Properties - Version tab.

| It might be signed EXE files that have metadata.

No relation. It's not required but most people writing
EXEs want to put in the version info, just as they
want their name on the jacket of a book they might
write. It's really commercial data rather than metadata.

But there's also other data that might be thought of as
metadata, such as import and export table that tells you
a file's dependencies.
Again, none of that has to be there, but it typically
is in a Windows EXE.

| There seem to be at least two kinds of EXEs in
| any case.
|
?


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Old August 15th 18, 03:39 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
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Default Do I need Windows indexing?

Peter Johnson wrote:
On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 13:17:06 +0100, mechanic
wrote:


And whatever happened to Copernic and other such search engines?


I have Copernic installed because Windows wouldn't index my NAS drive.
I don't know if that is still the case.


Once the NAS volume is Mapped, go back
to the Indexing Options and see if the
drive letter is in there.

https://www.online-tech-tips.com/win...-search-index/

*******

Note that, for the purposes of Ransomware,
your NAS does not count as a backup. Only
the hard drive you used to back up the NAS,
that is disconnected when Ransomware hits,
is your backup image.

Even when a NAS isn't Mapped, ransomware
can still find it. And the situation I
feared the most, the ransomware that
"sits and waits for a number of days",
has come to pass. Time was, you could
expect a quick attack, as that reduced the
odds of the attack being detected when the
ransomware arrived. (The odds were better
that your backup drive would save you.)

But the people writing that stuff have wised up.
If they can sit on a machine for a while, they
can see credentials and stuff. Even that backup
drive I described, might not be enough. You
might need a traditional "IT rotation pattern"
of backup drives (more than one drive).

I don't think Mapping necessarily makes the
situation that much worse. I just thought
I'd mention the issue. Some people think
their NAS is magic :-)

Paul
 




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