Re: Set all files on Windows XP to a specified create & access date

From: Uncle Joe (Jose_at_anonymous.net)
Date: 10/11/05 

Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:03:52 -0400

As a retired manager, I learned over
the years that there two types of
employees: the productive ones
and the ones who waste their time and
the company's time snooping on and
gossiping about their coworkers.

I would have loved to have gotten
proof that an employee of mine was
illegally installing/unistalling rouge
software, and/or invading another's
PC for the purpose of snooping on
them instead of concentrating on
his/her assigned tasks. Bye, bye, dude.

"Paul Koch" <pkoch@texas.ti.com> wrote in message
news:fEn2f.196$GH2.131@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net...
> Michael Bednarek <ROT13-zo@zorqanerx.pbz> wrote in
> news:j71hk1po3593ic46c6vlu1d2tboi6frtio@4ax.com:
>
>>>Even better, you can set Windows XP so it doesn't actually add a
>>>timestamp at all.
>>
>> None at all? How?
>
> The biggest security hole on your computer is the one you don't
> suspect.
>
> Given that Windows XP maintains these 3 time stamps
> o File Creation Date
> o Last Accessed Date
> o Last Modified Date
>
> What I hope to find is a way to turn OFF the modification of the
> last
> accessed date. I have never ever needed to search for a file based
> on
> this critical information but I have used it to snoop on my children
> and
> on many of my coworkers to monitor their use on the computer. I used
> it
> just last week to see if someone modified a file on me they said
> they
> were working on (they didn't).
>
> Since this last accessed date provides me so much dirt on my
> friends - I
> would hate to see what this information can do for my enemies. Since
> I
> work in a cube on a big network, and since I don't own the computer,
> I
> can not easily lock up my computer from snooping. Since the biggest
> security hole on your computer is the one you don't suspect, I find
> so
> much about others via this method of time-stamp snooping. It's great
> because they don't suspect it at all!
>
> To protect myself, once a quarter, I run WindowsXP freeware
> Attribute
> Changer 5 ( http://webplaza.pt.lu/~rpetges/downloads.html ) to set
> these
> 3 dates to January 01, 2001 at 12:01:01 am for all folders & files
> on my
> hard disc not currently in use by the operating system. Effectively
> this
> resets the dates for all but a few dozen files which are not data
> files
> anyway. I immediately uninstall the program after every use as my
> company
> forbids rogue programs to be installed on the computer.
>
> The ONLY side effect I have seen over the years of using time-stamp
> protection came with the advent of the Windows XP security checker
> which
> erroneously reports my Norton antivirus data files are out of date
> (Microsoft must do a dumb time-stamp look up or something stupid
> like
> that).
>
> After all this effort to protect myself (and to snoop on others), my
> only
> desire is to find an expert who knows how to TURN OFF the
> last-accessed
> date. I only hope my coworkers don't find out as this is one Windows
> security loophole I am having a field day with to get ahead at work!

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