Last week I caught Windows 10 doing something on my network drive for hours.
When I pulled the network cable, Superfetcht was seen in my task manager.
I don't know what it did but it ate up more than a 1 TB of network space to a point that it started to delete all my snapshots. I never found out where the disk space went, so I reformatted the network drive and put back the backup. So this time I am very concerned that Windows 10 will start to eat up my disk space again when I logon to it.
Sometimes I will need to access the network drive (to take my backups), but at that moment Windows will know the login and password and I want to avoid that. One trick could be to change the password every time I logged on to it with Windows 10. But that is a lot of work.
So how would you protect your network drive? Have a safe space that Windows can't access?
I checked out Steganos Suite 17, that is protecting your files but it does not seem to protect you from Windows 10 spying eyes. I mean it can create a vault, but it gives Windows 10 access to that vault too. So there is no point to use Steganos Suit 17.
And no moving to Linux is not an option in this case.
Edit: Some screen-shots what happened and why I don't want Windows 10 near my network drives.
- I see my NAS blinking like mad. While it should not.
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I check the task manager and notice System working like mad and the network working: https://slimgur.com/image/B6l
After hours of waiting, I finally pulled the NAS network cable, the NAS blinking stops and this pops up: https://slimgur.com/image/B6o
- Later I discover that my NAS drive is full: https://slimgur.com/image/B63
- Tried many days to find where the missing data went but never found it. The snapshots were empty.
- In the end reformatted the NAS drive, put back the data and now checking, the NAS drive works perfectly.
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[–] ObeyTheFist 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
This is insightful, it could be malware.
Or Windows Search doing indexing.
[–] 2288387? [S] ago
No malware in that case, it was clearly "System" that did it. Definitely not index sharing since I checked it and it said "indexing completed". Also that network drive was not in that list.
That network drive was NOT mapped to a drive letter.
[–] ObeyTheFist ago
System doesn't go out and start interrogating network shares like that. And Malware can coopt local system services.
[–] Chiefpacman ago
I would of guessed that, but deleting photo's? That's gotta be something bad.
[–] 2288433? [S] ago
Not photo's NAS snapshots of your folders. The NAS takes daily snapshots of your files just in case. It gets deleted when the NAS is low on disk space. The action of Windows caused to NAS to lose 1 TB of disk space and thus had to free the snapshots.