Re: How to delete Guest User Account

From: Robert Larre (Larres@telus.net)
Date: 07/13/02 

From: "Robert Larre" <Larres@telus.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 10:10:35 -0700

>To address your issue, cure the problem rather
>than treating the symptoms.
>
>--
>Roger Abell
>MS MVP (Windows Platform), MCSE, MCDBA
>Associate Expert - Windows XP ExpertZone
>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

Thankyou for the advice Roger. I obviously want to
get rid of the Nimda virus but Norton Anti Virus
does not seem to be capable of getting rid of it.
I'm not too sure what function a virus/detection
program serves if it can detect but not take counter
measures against the virus.

The info I have seen on Norton's site talk about a
patch for fixing a vulnerability in IE Ver 5. Is it
naive to assume that IE Ver 6(what I have on my machine)
includes this patch?

In any case, what do I do to get rid of Nimda? Norton
Anti Virus has been installed on this machine from the
supplier(Dell) so I am somewhat surprised that that I
have this problem.

How does one clean out Nimda?

>"Robert Larre" <Larres@telus.com> wrote in message
>news:1580501c22951$d8e74480$36ef2ecf@tkmsftngxa12...
>> How do I delete the "Guest" user account. My own
>> account has Administrator privileges and I can delete
>> or change other accounts and my own. The only option
>> I have with the "Guest" account is to turn it off or
on.
>> I want to delete it.
>>
>> You ask why?
>>
>> I have Norton Anti Virus running and it periodically
>> produces warnings of having detected a virus. Checking
>> the activity log shows reports similar to the ones
>> shown at the end of this message.
>>
>> Looking for info on the various subspecies of Nimda I
>> have read that one of the things it does is create a
>> Guest account and give it Administrator privileges.
>>
>> I don't like that at all & the fact that my own
>> Administrator account doesn't seem to have any control
>> over the Guest account makes me suspicious.
>>
>> Any clues/suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Sample Norton AV report entries:
>>
>> Date: 7/11/2002, Time: 9:47:54, Guest on D6129K11
>> The file
>> C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\ALL
>> USERS\DOCUMENTS\TEMPMAIL\smif n wesson - bucktown.eml
>> is infected with the W32.Nimda.enc virus.
>> Access to the file was denied.
>>
>>
>> Date: 7/11/2002, Time: 9:47:56, Guest on D6129K11
>> The file
>> C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\ALL
USERS\DOCUMENTS\desktop.eml
>> is infected with the W32.Nimda.enc virus.
>> Unable to repair this file.
>>
>>
>> Date: 7/11/2002, Time: 9:47:56, Guest on D6129K11
>> The file
>> C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\ALL
USERS\DOCUMENTS\desktop.eml
>> is infected with the W32.Nimda.enc virus.
>> Access to the file was denied.
>>
>>
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