Re: Battling a Virus

From: Len Segal (msn_news@ne_ws.oom)
Date: 12/02/02 

From: "Len Segal" <msn_news@ne_ws.oom>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 20:56:52 -0500

Todd,

If you think that you might have a computer virus, here's some online (free)
virus checkers that you can run to see if your machines are infected. None
of these require you to own any AV software. I'd suggest running two or all
three of them to be absolutely certain. No AV software is 100% accurate,
that's why constant vigilance is required in addition to the tools.

http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm - Panda

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ - Trend Micro's HouseCall

http://security1.norton.com/ssc/home.asp?j=1&langid=ie&venid=sym&plfid=23&pkj=NKWPBXUQIZQVMUYTACD
(watch out for line wrap) - Symantec's Online Virus Check 

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"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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