Checking my even viewer I find under system the following item:
Your computer has automatically configured the IP address for the Network
Card with network address 000F664B0A52. The IP address being used is
169.254.225.144.

I have an XP machine that eveytime it is rebooted it will delete all files
in MyDocuments, reset the home page, recreate a user account that was
deleted.
It was set up like this by a previous admin on purpose bc it is a public

we have a few notebooks with NortonAV 2005 installed.
With a normal user-account, liveupdate
won't work.
Does anyone know the trick, how to make

This may be a stupid question...but uhm...why cant I find a link FROM the
link that says "buy windows xp sp2 CD" here. lmao...I click on the link and I
do not see anythin relevant in the next page. 8|...
Thanks.

In my Windows Security Center it says that my virus protection is off,
although I did not turn it off.  How can I turn it back on because I can't
seem to find an on button or anything.

When I try and run MSBA on my XP machine it comes in with
"The catalog file is damaged or an invalid catalog"
error message.  How can I fix this.

Can someone tell me what svch/w32 is?  I do not know whether I should permit
this access or not. My anti-virus internet worm protection keeps telling me
that it is attempting to access. Thank you very much!

I'm trying to have my XP (SP2) machine try to synchronize passwords to a
Redhat Linux 7.3 machine.  I have the linux machine set up, but the windows
machine doesn't even attempt to contact it.  No records showing activity in
the logs on either machine show up.

My system crashed and so I lost everything. After I re-installed, I ran
Windows Update and brought down SP1 updates. System information shows that
I'm running SP1, build 2600. I then went to download SP2. When I go to
install SP2, it says "Download Size 0kb, 0 minutes (downloaded ...

I recently had someone rumage through my shared computer files witch
were only ment to be shared inside my private network. I forgot to put
up my firewall. The culprit left behind some .DS_Store files and .txt
file. The .DS_Store file is a filetype left behind by mac computers so

I am not sure if this is the correct group for this but I will try.
An MFC application that my group has written was installed on an XP machine
that has a software firewall.  The firewall warned the user that the
application was trying to access the internet.

Maybe you can help me.  My laptop died and I had many files on the hard drive
(not all backed up).  I bought a hard drive enclosure and it works fine on my
desktop as an extra drive except that the "My Documents" folder on the laptop
drive was password protected.  I cant find any ...

is there a place in the registry where i can put stuff to make it global for
all users, like disabling the registry editor or disabling the task manager.
i want keys that normally go in hkey_current_user to be available for
everyone on a machine. i tried putting it in hkey_users/ ...

Please help with a security question....
Recently, after an update to my Windows XP Home SE, every time I try to open a
file (ie mp3, bat, etc) I get a "Open File - Security Waring".  
Is there a way to disable this stupid window?

I am running Windows XP and have MS Antispy also loaded.  My PC is infected
with trojan.intell32 and the MS Antispy pops up a window saying that
trojan.intell32 is trying to install.  I click the REMOVE button and MS
Antispy says it has sucessfully removed the threat.