I don't understand where my security padlock has gone, it is not in the
systray, so how do I know that the site I'm sending and receiving from is a
secure site?  How do i get this item.  I don't recall it being there for a
long time.......

Hi.. new to the group so sorry if this has been addressed.
I recently activated my windows firewall as Norton's now blocks me from
accessing my mail.   The firewall seems okay however I have to turn it on
every time I boot up my computer.

every time i start up my computer these 2 annoying prompts come up
the first one says :
-c:\\1az.exe
windows cannot find 'c:\\1az.exe'. Make sure you typed the name

Whenever I have blackwidow.exe running on this one particular PC, (other
machines are fine) then lsass.exe goes to 100% and evrything runs very slowly.
Even if the app is just sitting idle, no network, no activity this will
happen.

Help!  Is it normal for my PC to be running registry modifications
continually???  I have Ad-Aware, and Ad-watch; and my Ad-watch shows that
"Registry Modification" are being "detected" every second.  There are at
least 3 per second while my PC is running.  I don't even have to ...

A Norton Anti-Virus 2004 scan of my C: drive yesterday
indicated an adware file (Dc1.exe, classifed by Symantec
as Download.Adware) was found at location C:/Recyclers/S-1-
5-21-1069572688-3670186237-2541864206-1003/Dc1.exe.

How can I create the hidden "Administrator" password without logging into the
administrator account through safe mode in windows xp sp2 home that doesn't
have the "group policy" function.
Thanks for reply.

XP Pro SP2
Had only user Administrator. After adding user1 can no longer get to the
shares on the XP machine from second machine Win98 and Administrator is now
hidden.

This is my problem. When i open outlook express, and try to open an
attachment (mp3, mpg.. etc ) I get the following error. " Windows found that
this file is potentially harmful. To help protect your computer, windows has
blocked access to this file ."

My firewall is reporting the above error many times.
Any suggestions why it's trying to connect via port 137/udp outbound to one
of the AkamiTechnologies caching servers ?
Port 137 does seem to be rather unusual to use - ideas ?

the keyboard to my computer is not working so i can only access a user
account which has no password and then use the onscreen keyboard. I want to
try and reinstall the drivers but for this I need to access the admnistrator
account. Is there any way of switching user without ...

Looking for a way to get trough,
wille creating a new account to my daughter, limited.
I wen to my account and check it out my old hotmail e-mail was not in use so
when I reestart my computer,  boom! My account doest come.

I'm not sure if this is the right forum, so I apologise if this request if
off-topic.
One of our home computers runs Windows XP (SP2) and has 3 user accounts.
Mine has administrator rights. Unfortunately, my daughter's has to have

I have just installed and run Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta1 on my computer and
when looking at the running systems I see the following:
Application Details
Command AntiVirus for Windows

I have many PC's running Win XP that connect to a AD domain with W2K3
servers.  Most run the Microsoft updates just fine, but one PC was telling me
that I didn't have permission to install updates.  This occured under either
local or domain admin accounts.  I looked in "local ...