>With UNIX, there were loggers and sniffers that reported in realtime when someone outside my box was "fooling" around. It would be nice for Windows to offer a program that listed what process on box requsted the outside file, and who owned those process and files that were retieved.
There are: see
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtmlProcess Explorer shows every thread running on your nt/2k/xp box, and what files/handles/etc each has open.
>XP is beginning to look more and more like a adware container!
Are you surprised?