Re: guest account has been logged into

From: Gordon (gordonbp1_at_yahoo.co.uk.invalid)
Date: 03/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 07:52:33 -0000

Colin Nash [MVP] wrote:
|| "Gordon" <gordonbp1@yahoo.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message
|| news:OlyvNYCKFHA.3832@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
||| marquis2222 wrote:
||||| I have always had the guest account off and never used it. But I
||||| was surprised when I ran Belarc Advisor to see that the guest
||||| account had been logged onto two days ago?
||||| I then logged onto the guest account this morning and belarc now
||||| shows that I did.
||||| Would there have been a hacker accesssing the guest account the
||||| other day?
|||
||| Ah. This is something I've run into. Even though Control
||| Panel-Users shows the guest account is off, if you go to control
||| panel-Administrative tools-Computer management-Users and Groups it
||| will tell you the guest account is ON!!!! Turn it off there.
||| WHY on earth MS decided that if you turn off guest account in
||| Control Panel - user accounts it isn't really turned off, I have no
||| idea! Just more not-joined-up thinking from MS I guess.
|||
||
|| It's used for networking between XP machines... by default, machines
|| that are not in a domain will attempt to authenticate as Guest.
||
||
|| See...
||
||
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prde_ffs_ypuh.asp
|| and
|| http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=290403
||

But only in Home Edition AFAIK? 

-- 
Interim Systems and Management Accounting
Gordon Burgess-Parker
Director
www.gbpcomputing.co.uk

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