Good tips. You remember what the names of all of the .exe files were?
support.exe was the principle one I recall...it was two years ago. I was running the Norton firewall at the time, and my Linksys router was logging the connections. It was probably something innocuous that logged program installations so if the system had trouble (e.g.someone installed AOL) they could tell what crashed it, but it was the refusal to disclose what they were doing that put them on my ...errrr...Poop list.
I bought the thing, it is my property, and the seller needs to tell me why they are so interested....Which is why there is no Windows Media Player on my machine, either.
I feel that if I buy a car, the dealer cannot rummage around my garage every day thereafter, and paw though my toolbox whenever they feel like it.
Without being shot dead, that is.