Re: hyjacked user

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 09/06/04 

Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 09:04:19 -0700

I've always had xp's firewall on and recently installed
service pack 2. I had run Belarc advisor and found a
guest logged on. Then I went to my system info and in my
user profiles there was a guest listed as unknown using
1.59mb,I deleted that profile. How do I find a name? And
is it really gone?
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi
>
>What was the name of this unknown user? Have you got a
Firewall running?
>
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>
>Will Denny
>MVP - Windows Shell/User
>Please reply to the News Groups
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>
>"connie" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:682901c493ed$804d5360$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>>I had a unknown user logged on my computer listed in the
>> system properties so I deleted it. Did I have someone
>> using my connection? It's just a dialup. Did I get rid
of
>> it ? My internet surfing was getting slower.
>
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>

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