Guest Peter Posted October 15, 2008 Posted October 15, 2008 My wife (who has no knowledge about cygwin) had xwin.exe running which used a lot of CPU and bandwith. I assume somebody was monitoring her desktop. How is this possible? Can this be done via the yahoo messenger? Quote
Guest Richard Urban Posted October 16, 2008 Posted October 16, 2008 http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=Cygw...rc=IE-SearchBox -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Peter" <Peter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:A883B58C-0111-44DE-A210-F8D75F903D1B@microsoft.com...<span style="color:blue"> > My wife (who has no knowledge about cygwin) had xwin.exe running which > used a > lot of CPU and bandwith. I assume somebody was monitoring her desktop. > How is this possible? > Can this be done via the yahoo messenger? > </span> Quote
Guest Peter Posted October 16, 2008 Posted October 16, 2008 Re: cygwin\XWin.exe running using 100% percent cpu time and much b <span style="color:blue"> > http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=Cygw...rc=IE-SearchBox</span> how does this answer my question? I know already what cygwin is. Peter Quote
Guest Richard Urban Posted October 16, 2008 Posted October 16, 2008 Re: cygwin\XWin.exe running using 100% percent cpu time and much b Obviously someone was at her desktop and installed it on her computer. It doesn't get installed remotely - unless she requested a remote assistance session and it was installed by the person who was helping her. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Peter" <Peter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:ED8692F2-35F7-4F04-86CE-56547CB919EB@microsoft.com...<span style="color:blue"> ><span style="color:green"> >> http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=Cygw...rc=IE-SearchBox</span> > > how does this answer my question? > I know already what cygwin is. > > Peter </span> Quote
Guest Paul Adare - MVP Posted October 16, 2008 Posted October 16, 2008 Re: cygwin\XWin.exe running using 100% percent cpu time and much b On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:51:36 -0400, Richard Urban wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > Obviously someone was at her desktop and installed it on her computer. It > doesn't get installed remotely - unless she requested a remote assistance > session and it was installed by the person who was helping her.</span> You've entirely missed the point of the question in the original post. -- Paul Adare MVP - Identity Lifecycle Manager http://www.identit.ca Quote
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