Re: Limited Users Can't Use Internet Connections

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From: Malke (malke_at_nospoonnotreally.com)
Date: 11/30/04


Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 06:03:21 -0800

Dan R. wrote:

> Thank you Malke,
>
> I searched for all of those items in my registry, but those that were
> there were already set to the values which you instructed me to set
> them to. So I still have the problem.
>
> Does anyone else have an idea?
>

What about the malware aspect that Kelly mentions? What have you done to
make sure the machine is completely clean? If you need suggestions as
to how to scan for malware, let me know. Make sure you do scans with at
least Ad-aware and Spybot S&D in all user accounts as they will find
user-specific stuff in each account.

Malke

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