Mysterious User Has Full Rights to Data Files

From: Tony Pino (tony_at_ch1ps.com)
Date: 06/15/03 

Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 20:23:07 -0700

Hi all,

On a Win2000 Pro machine with two drives (C and D), both
NTFS, I noticed that on all files and folders on the D
drive, under the security tab in file properties, there is
a user whose name is "S-1-5-21-1844237615-839522115-
1144855363-1003" and the icon next to it has a "?". The
user has full access.

What exactly is this?

Thanks!

Tony

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