Re: All user account locked

From: James Williams (itenginerd_at_nospam.earthlink.nospam.net)
Date: 03/25/04 

Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:10:05 -0500

That's a royal pain in the tail, but you're glad you have account
lockout turned on.... 8)

(j)
James

Ron King wrote:

> OK, I found the problem. A remote user had brought in there home computer
> because it was not performing well. The lock outs occured about 5 minutes
> after this computer was added to our physical network. The problem went
> away as soon as we removed the computer for the network. I assume it is a
> virus and will let everyone know what I learn after the virus scan is
> complete.
>
> Ron King
> CCSI
>
> "Ron King" <montyboy@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:uMLu0CqEEHA.4080@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>
>>Hi,
>> I hope someone can help or give me some idea as to what is going on.
>>When I returned from my lunch today, I found every user account on our
>>domian, excluding Administrator, locked out. How can this happen and what
>>can I do to prevent it from happening again? An occassional locked
>
> account
>
>>is normal, but to find every user account on the domain locked leads me to
>>believe something fishy is going on, so any ideas would be greatly
>>appreciated.
>>
>>Ron
>>CCSI
>>
>>
>
>
>

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