cygwin\XWin.exe running using 100% percent cpu time and much bandw

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?

http://search.live.com/results.aspx?...c=IE-SearchBox

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"Peter" <Peter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> 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?
>

> http://search.live.com/results.aspx?...c=IE-SearchBox

how does this answer my question?
I know already what cygwin is.

Peter

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.

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"Peter" <Peter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
>> http://search.live.com/results.aspx?...c=IE-SearchBox
>
> how does this answer my question?
> I know already what cygwin is.
>
> Peter

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:51:36 -0400, Richard Urban wrote:

> 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.

You've entirely missed the point of the question in the original post.

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