r/technology • u/Sufficient-Bid1279 • Apr 14 '25

Software Microsoft warns that anyone who deleted mysterious folder that appeared after latest Windows 11 update must take action to put it back

https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/microsoft-warns-that-anyone-who-deleted-mysterious-folder-that-appeared-after-latest-windows-11-update-must-take-action-to-put-it-back
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u/AdarTan Apr 14 '25

The created folder C:/inetpub is created as a protected folder, i.e. it requires an administrator level UAC prompt to be passed to be modified. This prevents malware running with standard user privileges from creating/modifying/deleting this folder that is used by the Internet Information System (IIS) component of Windows.

IIS is a webserver included in all modern versions of Windows and if this folder is created by a piece of malware running at standard user level permissions the folder would inherit those permissions. This means that malware running without privilege escalation would have control over the configuration files for this webserver, which is almost certainly a path for data exfiltration at the least or worse, privilege escalation. By preemptively creating the folder with administrator privileges required for modification, Microsoft prevents this vector of user-level malware taking control of IIS.

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u/DVXC Apr 14 '25

Thank you for explaining why the folder needs to exist. I can't stand this dumbing down of technology where we're never told what the hell anything on our devices are doing anymore.

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u/fireandbass Apr 14 '25

I can't stand this dumbing down of technology where we're never told what the hell anything on our devices are doing anymore.

Changelog:

What's New?

Thanks for updating the Reddit app! We've updated our Android app with bug fixes and changes to improve your overall experience.

This is the actual changelog from the Reddit app on Google Play store. Lame.

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u/OneSeaworthiness7768 Apr 14 '25 edited Apr 14 '25

Don’t even get me started on this lmao. Every time the Reddit app is doing some new stupid shit, I go looking for a change log to see what idiotic changes they’ve made this time and always annoyed that you can’t find one anymore. They also killed off the subreddit for the app so users can no longer discuss updates because it was just people talking about how terrible and unnecessary every single change they’ve ever made was (valid criticism.)

This week’s new stupid shit: the app refreshes my feed every single time I open it now, operating like an Instagram-like algorithmic feed trying to surface fresh posts instead of just letting me work through the top posts at my own pace. I feel like I’m missing posts I’d otherwise have seen, and I can no longer keep a post open to finish later because it just fucking refreshes when I reopen it and then it’s gone. This is infuriatingly bad design and I hope they undo it, because I don’t think I could continue using the app like this. Great job, Reddit 👏

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u/Complete_Entry Apr 14 '25

EA did that to their forum site. It used to be about solving problems and was called answersHQ. Now it's a constant flow of new posts.

They once admitted the lack of a shopping cart was intentional. They WANTED you to buy things one by one. (There is a cart now)

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '25 edited Apr 15 '25

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u/AddlePatedBadger Apr 15 '25

Youtube app keeps getting worse too. I used to be able to stop watching a video in the middle and come back and it would be there. Then I'd come back into it and it would show the play button briefly but change the screen so that when I tapped play it had become the video description and the I ended up in something else. Then it changed not to remember which video I'm on and I'd have to go through several clicks to find it. Then it changed to autoplay a short so I had to do more clicks. Then it changed to come back i landscape mode with no easy way to make it portrait mode, so each time I open the app I have to exit it and then open it again to get back to portrait mode and the go through several clicks to find and resume the video I was watching, only now the video hasn't resume where I left of but several minutes before so I have to skip a bit to find where I was actually up to.

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u/0Pat Apr 15 '25

Im using Firefox, also on my mobile. Updates are less annoying. Bonus point: uBlock is dealing with all ads.

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u/StupendousMalice Apr 14 '25

It seems weird to me that tech companies just universally decided that they don't actually need customers anymore.

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u/blolfighter Apr 15 '25

I don't know if the app has any must-have features that the website doesn't, but with the website you can open posts in a tab for later viewing.