Re: Recovering data after Sasser

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Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:18:09 GMT

I've just now gotten to working with this and in the first three words of
the KB, I have a question. It says:

Taking Ownership of Profiles in Windows 2000
  1.. In the Profile folder, right-click the appropriate user's profile
folder, and then click Properties.
  2.. Click the Security tab, and then click Advanced.
  3.. Click the Owner tab, click the user that you would like to take
ownership in the Change owner to box, and then click Apply.
  4.. Click the Ownership button. A dialog box appears and displays:

My Questions:
1 - I'm using Windows XP, does this (Windows 2000) KB still apply?
2 - I've been searching for the "Profile" folder and can't figure out which
one to use. I searched the drive and see what I think are 'system' profiles
yet when I right-click on them, and then 'properties' I don't get a
'security' tab. Do you have more of a path name to help me locate this
"Profile folder" the article talks about?

Can't tell you how much I appreciate the help!!!

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
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| See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q268019& for
| help taking 'ownership' of the files/folders you want - then if I were you
| I'd back them up elsewhere and do a clean install to start over.
|
| Make sure you get a good firewall - don't connect to the Internet without
| one.
|
| Robert Gregory wrote:
| > I started getting blue screens and finally last week realized I had
| > been infected with Sasser.
| >
| > Two days ago during boot up I kept getting the X-Notice entitled
| > "lsass.exe" with some message in the body saying why it couldn't
| > continue to boot-up. The end effect was a continual loop to this
| > error message and no further. After an hour with Dell tech support
| > they advised to just reformat, reinstall Windows, case closed. Only
| > problem? Last three months of data gonezo not to mention about six
| > years worth in Outlook 2002. I'm not a tech guy but was determined I
| > wouldn't give in to loosing so much data. Realizing I had a pretty
| > large hard drive I installed a second version of WindowsXP (at
| > C:\windows2\) and that's what I'm using right now, with no effects
| > from Sasser that still resides on the other side of the partition.
| >
| > My issue now is how to recover the data I 'know' is still on the
| > other side of my hard drive. When I boot-up in the new (Windows2)
| > installation I can see the old data folders "C:Windows\Documents and
| > Settings\My Documents" but it says these files cannot be accessed.
| > I'm also trying through the DOS prompt to get to the other side of
| > the partition to recover them but no luck yet. I can't seem to
| > locate them and don't remember enough DOS from the early 80s.
| > Another thing: once I booted-up in the Windows2 installation last
| > night I d/l and ran the Norton fix for Sasser and it said all was
| > well but I still can't boot-up with the original Windows installation
| > -- suggesting the fix only 'sees' the Windows2 installation on one
| > side of the partitioned hard drive.
| >
| > With that background here is my question: How can I recover my data
| > from my original Windows installation contained at:
| > C:\Windows\Documents and Settings\All Users\ ....etc? I can't bring
| > my self (yet) to reformatting and loosing all my data, not to mention
| > all the apps I've d/l and installed over the years!!!
| >
| > All help is greatly, greatly appreciated!!! Thanks!
| >
| > Robert
|
|

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