Re: Strange New User Created

Did that user appear immediatley after the install and before you connected
to the internet? Did you do a pristine install which requires that the
system drive be formatted [not quick format] ? Are you using authentic
Microsoft XP install disk and not some copy? --- Steve


"DannyBoy" <DannyBoy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:3CEF6A61-BFAA-4D26-8D0D-EF6A8C9F3241@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> While performing a complete REINSTALL on my one-year-old computer to fix a
> number of small things, I noticed that I had THREE USERS: me, guest, and
> a
> user named ATIxxxxx. Almost immediately, my McAfee intervened to say that
> a
> program was trying to access a file on my computer (regread?) and was this
> okay?
>
> I denied all outbound access and deleted the user, the one with the
> strange
> name (again, ATIxxxxx where the little Xs are additional characters that I
> failed to memorize).
>
> Is there a virus/worm/trojan on my computer that caused this?
> DannyBoy


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