Re: hard drive downloaded
How do you know files were copied? That a file was accessed means only that it was opened; such does not mean that it even read, let alone copied.
Many legitimate applications open files, in anticipation of their use, without ever doing more.
Likewise, many are opened and read, without your being consciously aware of such.
For example, if files are backed-up, they have been accessed. Sweep your machine for malware, and every file not excluded from those to be scanned is accessed!
As for a file being unexpectedly inaccessible owing to its already being open, the most prevalent cause of such is the failure of an application to have properly closed it during the last access; i.e., a system error.
Finally, it is not the job of a firewall to indiscriminately block data transfers.
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