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    From Spectre@21:3/101 to Anyone on Saturday, February 08, 2020 12:21:00
    Hmm todays left field question, right out of the blue, Win7 has decided to ask me to back up my encryption key and certificate. What makes this weird, is I'm not using any file system encryption, never have, and never seen this before. No idea what started it, at this point, I s'pose I might as well, in case someones been playing with it in my absence... But I can't see any way to check
    what its doing.

    Spec


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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Spectre on Saturday, February 08, 2020 22:33:42
    On 08 Feb 2020 at 12:21p, Spectre pondered and said...

    Hmm todays left field question, right out of the blue, Win7 has decided
    to ask me to back up my encryption key and certificate. What makes this weird, is I'm not using any file system encryption, never have, and

    seems weird to me, if you never used it.. I'd beware..

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  • From ryan@21:1/168 to Avon on Saturday, February 08, 2020 01:55:40
    Hmm todays left field question, right out of the blue, Win7 has decid to ask me to back up my encryption key and certificate. What makes th weird, is I'm not using any file system encryption, never have, and

    seems weird to me, if you never used it.. I'd beware..

    Agreed, and considering Win 7 is no longer supported, I'm highly suspicious this is nefarious.

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to ryan on Saturday, February 08, 2020 22:32:00
    Agreed, and considering Win 7 is no longer supported, I'm highly suspicious this is nefarious.

    That's an aspect I hadn't considered. Lets see what some scanning does.. if if
    this install packs it in, its probably about time for a new install anyway. Its done a lot of hard yakka with dodgy installs and cleanups. I'll still be on
    Win7 though.. nothing seems to be any good after that, plus my hardware isn't really up to it..

    Well so far the regular scanning sees no problems..

    I picked a acer laptop from the long shop, someone tried putting win10 on it, core2 with 2Gb ram... its like pushing treacle... plus that really weird interface... will have to use it one day I guess... prbobably after its obsolete like everything else here :)

    Spec


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    * Origin: Scrawled in haste at The Lower Planes (21:3/101)
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Spectre on Saturday, February 08, 2020 08:44:00
    Spectre wrote to Anyone <=-

    Hmm todays left field question, right out of the blue, Win7 has decided
    to ask me to back up my encryption key and certificate. What makes this weird, is I'm not using any file system encryption, never have, and
    never seen this before. No idea what started it, at this point, I
    s'pose I might as well, in case someones been playing with it in my absence... But I can't see any way to check
    what its doing.

    Look at the icons in the "This PC" window in explorer. Memory fades already, but you should see either a different colored icon or a lock overlaid over
    the icon if it's encrypyted.

    From an administrator command prompt, you could also type in
    manage-bde -status to check on Bitlocker status.


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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to ryan on Sunday, February 09, 2020 10:40:06
    On 08 Feb 2020 at 01:55a, ryan pondered and said...

    Agreed, and considering Win 7 is no longer supported, I'm highly suspicious this is nefarious.

    Yep. But a strange one to see so quickly after the support ended. More likely something that was out there but unrelated to the loss of OS patching. My 5 cent guess :)

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sunday, February 09, 2020 08:02:00
    Look at the icons in the "This PC" window in explorer. Memory fades already, but you should see either a different colored icon or a
    lock overlaid over the icon if it's encrypyted.

    I couldn't figure this one out..


    From an administrator command prompt, you could also type in
    manage-bde -status to check on Bitlocker status.

    This reports that BitLocker is inactive... Fully Decrypted, 0% encrypted.
    So thats something, I wonder what it backed up in its lil backup file then.

    Spec


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  • From Alter Ego@21:2/116 to Spectre on Sunday, February 09, 2020 16:17:26
    Re: Billware 7
    By: Spectre to Anyone on Sat Feb 08 2020 12:21 pm

    Hmm todays left field question, right out of the blue, Win7 has decided to ask me to back up my encryption key and certificate. What makes this weird, is I'm not using any file system encryption, never have, and never seen this before. No idea what started it, at this point, I s'pose I might as well, in case someones been playing with it in my absence... But I can't see any way to check

    FWIW, Hub 3 is Windows 7 (32 bit) - and it hasnt asked me anything like this... ...deon


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Spectre on Sunday, February 09, 2020 07:45:00
    Spectre wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Look at the icons in the "This PC" window in explorer. Memory fades already, but you should see either a different colored icon or a
    lock overlaid over the icon if it's encrypyted.

    I couldn't figure this one out..

    Yeah, I haven't seen Windows 7 in a while. :)


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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to poindexter FORTRAN on Monday, February 10, 2020 07:08:00
    Look at the icons in the "This PC" window in explorer.

    I couldn't figure this one out..

    I picked up a laptop someone had stuck win10 on, from my usual shop. Guess what I found in there.... "This PC" Win7 has "My Computer" in it still :)

    Spec


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to poindexter FORTRAN on Tuesday, February 11, 2020 09:28:00
    On 02-09-20 07:45, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Spectre <=-

    Yeah, I haven't seen Windows 7 in a while. :)

    Yeah I took the hint late last year when Office365 warned me that there was no guarantee that it would run on Windows 7 after January 20, because future updates would only for be Windows 8 and later. So, I upgraded this PC to Windows 10, and actually it has been an improvement, once I toned down some of the eye candy in favour of performance.


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