Re: Why I have an unknown user accout automatically?

From: Robert Moir (robert.moir@ntlworld.com)
Date: 09/30/02 

From: "Robert Moir" <robert.moir@ntlworld.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:28:23 +0100

"Edward" <whq@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OD0gbmKaCHA.1556@tkmsftngp08...
> Today I found an unknown user account in Control Panel ->User Accounts.
This
> is my second time for discovering an unknown user account. The first time
I
> deleted the account.
>
> Is somebody hacking my computer? How can I prevent it from happening
again?
>

So what is this account? You know XP itself, and a few applications you
might install, can setup their own accounts?

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