how can i learn my childs windows password without
removing it?

I hate having to logon to windows! Make it stop!
There is no one else in my house. I don't care about
security. I just want to turn it on and use it. Logging on
is a waste of my precious time.

Help please
this little pest has taken over my search buton on Eplorer 6. It now goes to a Porn site with popups appearing
AVG has Quarantined it, but the "Search" ability still produces the rubbish. Is the worm defeated, leaving the web location unchanged or... is it still doing ...

I have a laptop from work with win\2000 pro, it has a security icon (local security policy) in the administrative tools window, which sets user level permissions. I use a network at home with two win XP computers, and would like to have that same function on the xp systems. ...

Running WInXP Pro.  Clean install just a few weeks ago.  Have installed all updates, etc.  Have activated Windows built-in firewall.  Had a virus within first few minutes on internet, so eliminated worm, and turned on firewall.  Think I have another one, based on behavior of ...

I have certain laptops which run local programs on and off
our network.  When users (while offline) try to access a
share using fqdn ie.\\localmachine\share they are denied
access even though they just created the share

A few days ago my computer suddenly started to reboot itself time after time. I got suspisious that it was infected with the Blaster virus. Now it is not possible to start the computer anymore. It gets to the Welcome screen but no user accounts are displayed for logon and no ...

My IE was hijacked whenever I licked on a link. However,
when I edited the registry I discovered the name of the
website I was hijacked to. Despite the changes I made in
the registry to set the location to my default website,

i have two files in my windows system 32 folder c:\windows\system32\apaamon.cpy.dll and then theres just apaamon.dll. Both of these showed up on a Add-aware scan, but i cant delete them. It says they are in use by another person or I am not authorised to open them. Help me out ...

I'm having problems with Windows Installer.  I'm told it isn't installed right, so I checked and it is registered correctly. So I went to reinstall it and here's where I hit a roadblock. When I open cmd, the command line stays in C:\Documents and Settings\*Myusername* no matter ...

My father-in-law has only a dialup connection to the
internet, so Windows update is PAINFULLY slow.
Is there anyway I can download updates for him over my DSL
connection, burn them to a CD and take them to him?  How

some one is viewing my messages from a remote computer.
Will the latest secrity pach fix this?

I have recieved a Windows XP computer to repair.
After removing about 6 diffirent trojans from the machine the repairs
have been done and in order to prevent further attacks I also changed
the user and administrator passwords.

XP Pro.
22/04/04 This morning I had an auto flag come up to say
that I should accept an MS upgrade.
I said yes and everything went ahead as usual.

 Just hours after updating my virus definitions, and downloading the new Windows updates, I get a message from Norton saying this virus has been detected. I downloaded the removal tool which did its thing and then told me it could not find this virus, as did the scan I did after ...