Re: Virus detected in deleted user account

Where are the files located as in the path - under documents and settings??
If an account had been deleted the operating system would have no record of
it though there may be remnants of it's existence in the registry, access
control lists showing the deleted users sid, or the user's profile folder
under documents and settings if the user had ever logged onto the computer.
Regardless as an administrator you should be able to delete any file on the
computer though you may need to take ownership of the file first and then
give yourself or administrators full control permissions to it. If you get
an error that balks that the file is in use try booting into Safe Mode and
it is always a good idea to do malware/spyware scans in Safe Mode also. You
also may want to review the security log via Event Viewer to see if any
events reference the mystery user account. If the operating system was not
installed to a formatted system partition [not fast format] then it is not
unusual to find user profiles from the old installation depending on how the
installation was done.--- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421 --- how to
take ownership of files/folder

"corred" <corred@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1138934513.353056.89540@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
O'K My bad I should have offered more info. The system is running a
recently reinstalled copy of XP Pro and has been updated to SP2. The
machine has had a history of instability and I am trying to fix or
repair. After uninstalling the 'buggy' Live Beta I installed PC Tools
Anti vir and scanned twice. It found one quarrantined Java /Trojan and
deleted it but this was I believe an unrelated event. What puzzles me
is the scan of a 'deleted user account'. Windows does not seem to know
that it exists and I am at a loss how to access and test this issue.
BTW the system after a bit of hardware jugglery and very minute
dissection of the BIOS Settings appears now to be stable but I am still
troubled by the deleted user account.
Thanx
Corred



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