Vista - Security hole?

I tried to retrofit a "windows XP" machine into a Windows Vista
machine for the past 2 days. My problems including no sound and no
modem and a machine that wouldn't boot with a new sound card or an
external USB device attached to it.

I can live with the failure of retrofitting.

But I can't live with the following:

For some reason , known only to Microsoft and / or Symantec, both
"vista machines" want to share my music library. The problem is that I
don't have any shares on either machine.

The problem also exists when I restored the Windows XP machine.

I noticed this behavior when I was sitting in a airport waiting for a
plane. Airport was in a wireless network. Yesterday was wired.

I wonder what will happen in Windows 7.

Why does "Vista" automatically search for media libraries to share?
Does this behavior happen when 2 XP machines are side by side?

I have NIS 2009 installed on both machines with the installed default
behavior on both machines?

Again who is too blame? How do I fix this? (I know, use Linux)

thanks

"David Sherman" <dshermin@xxxxxx> skrev i meddelelsen
news:vu5515deb4v91ss8gd88ieltsq6cfkd6mh@xxxxxx
Please dont take this the wrong way, but are you mentally ill??.

/Jesper

"David Sherman" <dshermin@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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XP will do this as well, but the default is off. Vista has music library
sharing turned on. To turn this off in Vista, open Control Panel Network
and Sharing Center and turn off Media sharing. Also, the directory path for
this sharing is C:\Users\Public. Vista uses the Public "user" for sharing
with people who don't have accounts on the machine.

Mike Ober.


Mike.

I may be but if Microsoft decides to share a folder on my machine,
then I am. Does that mean that someone can "take" music file from my
machine?

On Tue, 19 May 2009 21:06:13 +0200, "Jesper Ravn"
<jesper_ravn@xxxxxx> wrote:

"David Sherman" <dshermin@xxxxxx> skrev i meddelelsen
news:27la151jkan2k9grk3humch37c88dmerq3@xxxxxxHello David

First, sorry for my rude comment, I misunderstood your question and problem.
If your Network Location is set to private, you run the risk of sharing your
media to everyone else on the public network.
If you set your Network Location to public, media sharing is automatically
turned off.

For more information see the link below.
Privacy and security considerations when sharing media in Windows Media
Player:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...61033.mspx#EIB

If you don't need or use the sharing features, I would recommend to turn
them all off.
How to Turn Network Discovery On or Off in Vista:
Network Discovery - Turn On or Off[11]=Networking
Internet

Also see Mike Ober comment.

/Jesper