• BRAXMAN: OneDrive Is Scanning Your Files - Here's How to Kill It Completely

    From Dystopian Planet@Nightmare@1984.com to alt.privacy.anon-server, misc.phone.mobile.iphone, alt.comp.os.windows-11 on Wed Aug 5 18:24:48 2026
    From Newsgroup: misc.phone.mobile.iphone

    Another kind of client side scanning. This is not a conspiracy theory...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfJ1KQwJaq8

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  • From Paul@nospam@needed.invalid to misc.phone.mobile.iphone,alt.comp.os.windows-11 on Wed Aug 5 14:51:17 2026
    From Newsgroup: misc.phone.mobile.iphone

    On Wed, 8/5/2026 2:24 PM, Dystopian Planet wrote:
    This is not a conspiracy theory...

    Well, that's good.

    It's sunny outdoors today, too.

    At least your post came with a T-shirt and Conspiratorial Mug
    for sale, which is more than I can say for other posts here,
    posts which lack T-shirt/Mug sales.

    Well, I checked in Task Manager, and there is no OneDrive.exe .
    What could that mean ?

    And it likely wasn't a run of this.

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

    ; Created by: Shawn Brink
    ; Created on: October 28, 2021
    ; Tutorial: https://www.elevenforum.com/t/enable-or-disable-onedrive-in-windows-11.2318/

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\OneDrive] "DisableFileSyncNGSC"=dword:00000001

    I do have one of these.

    File 249628
    \Users\Bullwinkle\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\OneDrive.exe
    $STANDARD_INFORMATION (resident)
    $FILE_NAME (resident)
    $OBJECT_ID (resident)
    $DATA (nonresident)
    $DATA WofCompressedData (nonresident)
    logical sectors 28370440-28372047 (0x1b0e608-0x1b0ec4f)
    $REPARSE_POINT (resident)

    but there is no executable in this folder. The OneDrive folder is relatively empty. Which means the OneDrive application was removed from RealAccountName but not from all accounts, when I removed the Application for it.

    \Users\RealAccountName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\OneDrive.exe # Missing here, fell off truck

    Now I can rinse my Conspiratorial Mug and put it back in the cupboard,
    as no scanning is going on while RealAccountName runs the session.

    If it is scanning on your machine, then it is syncing too.

    In my case:

    Bullwinkle Onedrive.exe [Not an MSA, no place to put files] RealAccountName No Onedrive.exe [Is an MSA, but no software to scan the profile]

    so in each case, there is a disconnect.

    Paul
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  • From Nick Charles@none@none.none to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.privacy.anon-server,misc.phone.mobile.iphone on Wed Aug 5 20:12:09 2026
    From Newsgroup: misc.phone.mobile.iphone

    On Aug 5, 2026 at 2:24:48rC>PM EDT, "Dystopian Planet" <Nightmare@1984.com> wrote:

    Another kind of client side scanning. This is not a conspiracy theory...

    Actually it is konspiracy kooktard theory. How is it scanning files on my iPhone?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TotalBullshit

    Since this gibberish is on SpewTube, it is not even at the level of theory. It is a konspiracy kooktard hypothesis.
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  • From ....winston@winstonmvp@gmail.com to misc.phone.mobile.iphone,alt.comp.os.windows-11 on Thu Aug 6 23:13:09 2026
    From Newsgroup: misc.phone.mobile.iphone

    On 08/05/2026 2:51 PM, Paul wrote:

    Well, I checked in Task Manager, and there is no OneDrive.exe .
    What could that mean ?

    ...but there is no executable in this folder. The OneDrive folder is relatively
    empty. Which means the OneDrive application was removed from RealAccountName but not from all accounts, when I removed the Application for it.

    \Users\RealAccountName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\OneDrive.exe # Missing here, fell off truck


    Fyi...OneDrive.exe by design exist in the Program Files folder
    => C:\Program Files\Microsoft OneDrive

    As well as MSFT's latest push-a-beta down(on W10 22H2 ESU and Win11
    25H2) to Windows.
    => OneDrive.App.exe
    which is OneDrive Photos (updated devices should find it on the Start
    and a slightly different blue cloud icon.
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