Re: Hidden User Account Created By Disgruntled Room mate.

From: Jupiter Jones (jones_jupiter@hotnomail.com)
Date: 10/22/02 

From: "Jupiter Jones" <jones_jupiter@hotnomail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 09:30:03 -0600

Go to Start/All Programs.
Click on Power Toys. then click Tweak UI
Click on Logon on the left side
Place checkmarks where you want.
If you do not have Power Toys:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp
Run an updated virus scan.
Run Ad-Aware:
http://www.webattack.com/get/adaware.shtml 

--
Jupiter Jones
Please respond to newsgroup only.
Everyone can benefit from the message.
"cristina" <blondelatin2002@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:93d801c27998$c0a342b0$2ae2c90a@phx.gbl...
> I am also concerned that someone has set up another user
> profile directly on my computer and/or can somehow access
> it remotely without my approval. I dont know what Tweak
> UI is or how to search for it on my hard drive. can you
> please provide more information on that and also some
> advice on how i can check to see if a program or profile
> has been set up on my computer without my knowledge? I am
> afraid my Windows XP firewall is pretty much useless.
> thank you
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I am not sure if Administrator access would constitute a
> weakness.
> >You gave him physical access and Administrator access,
> the weakness is
> >yours not Windows.
> >You probably have Tweak UI installed.
> >Open up Tweak UI.
> >Click on Logon on the left side.
> >Place checkmarks in all except Administrator (unless you
> want to see
> >Administrator at logon screen.)
> >You will probably see the other profiles your "friend
> created"
> >From there you can go to User Accounts in Control Panel
> and delete the
> >profiles you do not want.
> >
> >--
> >Jupiter Jones
> >Please respond to newsgroup only.
> >Everyone can benefit from the message.
> >
> >
> >"Kris Sangani Sangani" <kris.sangani@orange.net> wrote
> in message
> >news:u2DbvnXeCHA.1652@tkmsftngp09...
> >> Recently, while looking at a former room mate's
> document folder (who
> >I
> >> kicked out for not paying rent), I discovered an
> apparent hidden
> >user
> >> account with administrator privileges.
> >>
> >> I discovered this in the permissions for that
> particular folder. Its
> >name
> >> comprised a long string of letters and numbers.
> >>
> >> However, when I looked at the list of user accounts in
> the control
> >panel,
> >> its not there? I suspect my former room-mate (who had
> threatened to
> >plant a
> >> trojan), created this account.
> >>
> >> How do I remove it? Does anyone know about this
> weakness in Windows
> >XP?

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