Re: Battling a Virus

From: Måç (H@teSpam.com)
Date: 11/30/02 

From: "Måç" <H@teSpam.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 18:05:01 -0000

If I was in your position I would save all my data and do a clean reinstall
of XP

"Todd Taggart" <ttaggart1@mn.rr.com> wrote in message
news:20a8f01c2989a$1cb4ed40$8af82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA03...
> I ran Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and it
> returned an alert showing that more than one
> administrator exists. I'm having virus problems.
>
> When I go to "User Accounts" in the Control Panel, there
> is only one user shown.
>
> How do I delete these other administrators?

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