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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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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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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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"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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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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