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Everything but the kitchen sink...
Aug. 28th, 2014 12:17 pmI took a chance on one of those Evernote Moleskine notebooks (or would that be "Moleskine Evernote notebook"?), whose price includes three months of Evernote Premium service, which in my case just extends my service by three months, as I am already a Premium Evernote customer.
The idea of this product is to offer a notebook whose pages are printed in such a way as to make them recognizable by Evernote. That said, it would appear this recognition is there solely to recognize the presence of special stickers that come with the notebook (OCR is also done, but that happens even with notes scanned from regular paper).
I had hoped Evernote would also apply some computer power to adjust image quality and resize and readjust the pixels on a page (along the lines of what Booksorber does with photos of book pages) but I was mistaken.
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While getting my old netbook back up to speed, I noticed, yesterday, that something on the machine had sent gobs of data (like, 12 GB) out the wireless connection.
I immediately shut off the wireless and commenced scanning for malware, but neither the built-in Windows malware scanner nor a recent Malwarebytes install uncovered anything unwholesome.
This morning, by the time the computer had finished its startup routine and I had a chance to see what was happening with the wireless port, about another 40 MB of data had been sent... somewhere.
I have Process Explorer, but apparently don't know how to use it well, so I fired up the Task Manager and paid attention to processes that were eating CPU cycles. A likely candidate showed up early, something called wmpnetwk.exe, which I come to learn is something called Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service.
I am pretty sure I made a point of never using Windows Media Player on that machine, but who knows? maybe I'm mistaken.
However, after disabling this service, the massive transfer of data I had been experiencing came to a halt. Someday, if I'm curious enough, I may re-enable the service and then use Process Explorer to snoop on the IP address it connects to at the other end of the wireless connection.
Always something...
The idea of this product is to offer a notebook whose pages are printed in such a way as to make them recognizable by Evernote. That said, it would appear this recognition is there solely to recognize the presence of special stickers that come with the notebook (OCR is also done, but that happens even with notes scanned from regular paper).
I had hoped Evernote would also apply some computer power to adjust image quality and resize and readjust the pixels on a page (along the lines of what Booksorber does with photos of book pages) but I was mistaken.
While getting my old netbook back up to speed, I noticed, yesterday, that something on the machine had sent gobs of data (like, 12 GB) out the wireless connection.
I immediately shut off the wireless and commenced scanning for malware, but neither the built-in Windows malware scanner nor a recent Malwarebytes install uncovered anything unwholesome.
This morning, by the time the computer had finished its startup routine and I had a chance to see what was happening with the wireless port, about another 40 MB of data had been sent... somewhere.
I have Process Explorer, but apparently don't know how to use it well, so I fired up the Task Manager and paid attention to processes that were eating CPU cycles. A likely candidate showed up early, something called wmpnetwk.exe, which I come to learn is something called Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service.
I am pretty sure I made a point of never using Windows Media Player on that machine, but who knows? maybe I'm mistaken.
However, after disabling this service, the massive transfer of data I had been experiencing came to a halt. Someday, if I'm curious enough, I may re-enable the service and then use Process Explorer to snoop on the IP address it connects to at the other end of the wireless connection.
Always something...
