Re: Local Security Settings

From: llie (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/01/04 

Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 03:00:51 -0700

>-----Original Message-----
>
>>
>>That is a Security ID (SID) that belongs to an account
>on your system,
>>or a previous installation of XP.
>>
>>Those IDs usually are shown with Group or User names. If
>all you see is
>>that number, you may have already mucked around too much
>with XP Home
>>Edition or you may be looking at leftovers from your
>previous XP
>>installation that you overwrote or you may be looking at
>leftovers from
>>deleted accounts.
>>
>>--
>>Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows Security
>>.
>>
>
>1. I have XP Pro on this machine. XP Home or any other
>OS has never been on this machine.(read original post)
>2. XP has never been reinstalled on this machine,
>repaired, or overwrote, nor have I ever had to "restore"
>a restore point.
>3. That number is in addition to the other entries, i.e.
>Administrator etc...
>4. There are three accounts on my system. Administrator
>and two users, of which one of the users never gets
>used. There has only been one other account which was
>deleted.
>
>I had much the same problem with Xp in the beginning, and
it took 4 reinstalls and lots of grief with Microsoft
folks (and my DSL people)to get them to acknowledge that I
actually did have unwanted users on my system. Long
story, but it had to do with insecure DSL LAN as I was
trying to update the very insecure XP Home (an hour
maybe?) and the static IP I have.... Anyway, I suggest you
read up on the users who are built in to XP and those who
aren't, and watch your logs! ANd check task manager
regularly! I was locked out of my own network folders and
log files (so these buggers couldn't get traced), which is
how I KNEW something very wrong was up... but it wasn't
until I screamed bloody murder with lots of googled
research under my belt that anyone paid attention to me.
Go to Black Viper .com for a great set of directions on
how to configure your services (what to turn off,
especially), and then to Tweakxp.com for configuring
permissions and the like.
>.
>

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