I am getting websites added to my history folder of pages that I am not
visiting while I am browsing the web. Most of the time it is a search engine
like Q-Find.com or Qualitative search engine or your discount drug store.
Today I was just sitting and watching history folder ...

About March 15 I posted the following message to Microsoft Online
Support Service:
"For the past month I have been trying unsuccessfully to install your
XP SP2 application (three time over two weeks by downloading it online,

Running a Compaq PC with Win XP Home SP1.
My brother-in-laws computer became infested with a variety of
Trojans, malware, etc.  He garnered lots of information and using
various antivirus, spyware, adware, malware removal tools cleaned

I want to know if I create a limited user account in Win XP Pro, and want
that user to restrict C: drive and CD-ROM drive and some other restrictions.
Then how it can be done? Withou implementing the same restrictions on the
administrators' accounts?

i have a question.. this is how my question goes. i am an admin .. and when i
change the setting to my group policies .. it effects the admin and the guest
account.. how do i set the the policies to the guest account only..

I am locking down my Windows XP machine, and want tto know what ports need to
remain open in my router for automated outgoing communication from XP (and
what is each for)? I currently have all ports closed, and see attempted
accesses from XP to various IP addresses mapping to msn ...

.Hii,
I ned some help, before Thursday of this week, whenever i tried to download
a file from a site I was prompted to confirm or allow the download.  My
daughter used my machine to do some home work after I finished, but now when

I INSTALL WINDOWS XP PRO IN MY COMPUTER AND I PUT MY LOGON PASSWORD. AT FIRS
I CAN LOGON WITH MY PASS THEN WHEN I REBOOT THE SYSTEM DONT WANT TO ACCEPT MY
PASS. I GO IN SAFE MODE AND THE ADMINISTRADOR HAVE A PASS TOO. WHAT IS GOING
ON PLEASE HELP.

I have been trying to lock out one of my user's hard drive partition (drive
D:) so only she can access it.
How do I do this using her domain credentials and not her local account
credentials on her PC.

How to prevent a non-admin user from terminate a process?
Or, is it possible?

The SP2 Firewall has stopped my ftp programs working.
I have added the programs to 'exceptions' and opened up Port 21 and still
no joy. Is there anything else I can do? (please don't say turn it off :) ).
Could it also have anything to do with the fact my Windows XP machine is

Can anyone help, have some sort of spyware in my home computer, redirects
home page to about:/blank with some sort of search engine, then pop up's
appear all over saying about spyware / pc performance etc.. Have tried
Adaware & Spybot Search & Destroy to remove but to no joy. The ...

I installed an activeX control at a website and it wrote iasad.dll.  This
fill acts like spyware creating icons, changing my home page, and stops every
search engine from working properly.  It is a dll file so I am not allowed to
delete it.  I was wondering how do I remove this ...

When i try to install XP SP2 on a Home edition, I get the attached error.
If the attachment is not viewable, it says
"Service Pack 2 Setup could not backup registry key HKCR\CEnroll.CEnroll to
file C:\WINDOWS\$NTServicePackUninstall$\reg00245.  5:Access is denied."

I have some PCs (6) conected to internet through switch + router + modem in
256 kbps range working OK, but in sometimes when i shutdown these PCs i can
see in some of them the message "...there is a user conected, if you
shutdown...", and none here was conecting, recently even ...