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echo: nthelp
to: Ellen K.
from: Chris Robinson
date: 2003-01-27 08:22:38
subject: Re: XP automatically controlling file attributes?

From: Chris Robinson 

Yup, fair point there, although I'd hope there'd be no reason at all for
any investigators to take my PC away...  I was thinking more along the
lines of a hacker looking at my files or if someone stole my PC and had a
quick look to see
if there was any info they could use to rip me off more.

Chris.

"Ellen K." wrote:

> Off-topic, but I bet the swap file is one of the first places
> investigators look when they take away somebody's computer...
>
> On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 06:17:30 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote in
> message :
>
> >"Chris Robinson" 
wrote in message
> >news:3E2E7B9D.1EAABF1E{at}NOSPAMtotalise.co.uk...
> >
> >> encryption program), XP reset all the attributes - even though the file
> >> had been renamed and the attributes removed.
> >
> >XP (and 2K) identify a file by it's fileID not by it's name, so XP still saw
> >it as the swapfile and there is probably some security service running that
> >prevents access to the swap file.
> >
> >Geo.
> >

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