been hijacked

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anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 05/03/04


Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 05:15:41 -0700

Before reinstalling have you run any spyware software?
Run all 4 below if not

Spybot Search and Destroy
 http://www.safer-networking.net/

Lavasoft AdAware
 http://www.lavasoft.de

CWSShredder
 http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

Hijack This!
 http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/

>-----Original Message-----
>Someone has changed the system administrator settings on
>my pc, my wife and I are still listed as adm. but cannot
>install or uninstall certain programs due to the "must be
>an adm." notification. After trying every other measure,
>we are down to uninstalling and reinstalling xp home,
>somhow during the move I have misplaced my cd's. I still
>have the jacket for my xp home with key but no driver cd.
>can I use someone elses xp with my key? then what would I
>do about drivers?
>.
>



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