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Is anyone able to take any educated guess(es) about what this "Unknown Contact" is, which has access to a few shared folders on my computer?

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The concerned machine is connected to another via a crossover cable, and I sometimes set "advanced sharing settings" so that both, file discovery and file & printer sharing, are turned on, for both, "Home or Work" and "Public". I also do not have a password set for the account on the machine concerned; operating system is Windows 7 SP1. I have programs like TunnelBear and Tunngle installed, too, but I don't see why they'd have access to shared folders, especially writing access. If there is any other information needed for an educated guess or more, please let me know. Thank you.

Rok
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They could be accounts that were added to the access control list, but then deleted. The system doesn't go through all files to scrub references to deleted users, so phantom entries like these get left behind

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Máté Juhász
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If you're really concerned, you could hunt down a proggie that monitors logons and etc.

Something like Share Watch at http://stevemiller.net/apps/ will show if anyone's actually dropping in.

wendy.krieger
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