I think my computer was hacked, perhaps by a wireless neighbor or
vehicle parked outside. Anyway, I no longer have authority to do just
about anything. The administrator had a password added and I don't know
it. I'm running XP home and DON'T have a disk.

this is prob a bit basic so sorry!
but I think Norton has turned off my SP2 secrity centre service. I think
this is stopping me from browsing my local work group, as it also seems to
turn off the internet connection sharing etc service. Can someone please tell

MY PROBLEM IS, WHEN I TRY TO GO TO ADD\REMOVE PROGRAMS IN THE CONTROL PANEL,
IT TELLS ME THAT ACCESS IS DENIED, AND I NEED TO TRY ACCESSING WITH AN
ADMINISTRATOR ACCOUNT, BUT I AM LOGGED ON WITH MY ADMIN. ACCOUNT. CAN SOMEONE
HELP ME? THANK YOU

Our Network Environment: Windows Server 2003 Active Directory domain
with a mix of Windows 2000 Pro and Windows XP Pro client computers.
All end users have domain accounts, no local client computer accounts.
Our Domain account/Desktop Computer Policy:  Any end-user whose

Hi,
         I have got a very BIG PROBLEM.I have recently done a fresh Windows
XP SP2 opeating system installation in my Computer,previoUsly I had Windows
XP Proesional (Non SP2) installed.After this new installation I found that

We are running into a major issue on our network.  We have the XP SP2
firewall disabled via Group Policy.  We've noticed, however, that whenever a
new patched is released and installed on the workstations, the firewall is
magically enabled again...this prevents us from using ...

I saved all my document into an external HDD because I wanted to reinstall
my PC once my PC was installed I tried to open my files which in the external
HDD but I couldn’t because all my files where encrypted for security.
How can I open my folders?

I just built a new computer, and decided to keep my original hard drive for
storage, and run my OS on the new hard drive.. I have a ton of important
files that I left in the "My Documents Folder" on my spare drive.. Basically
I cleaned out the spare drive that was running windows ...

When I open the task manager, a window opens up displaying the list o
applications currently running on the system. However the title of th
window and the tabs for Processes and Performance are missing.
Hence I am unable to terminate processes or monitor my compute

I am still struggling to remove all the Spy Trooper Trojans.
At start-up a window pops up saying "Norton antivirus does not support
the repair" and to uninstall and reinstall Nortons.
Is this a genuine Nortons message or is it being caused by the Trojan

I have the Administrator account of my home PC. All of my family members use
the different accounts to log on to my home PC. I want to make some of my
folders cannot be accessed by other people. But, I don't want to make my
folders hidden. What should I do?

a couple of strange things started happening recently. First, when I start up
the pc my taskbar security centre icon tells me my computer is at risk
because automatic updates is switched off (it isn't. I have it set to
automatic download, and as far as I'm aware it's working).

Is the windows firewall in xp sp2 good enough to use? Or do you think I
should use a program like zone alarm?
Thank you all for your help and responses.
Jeff

New users get setup by default with custom security settings for IE on the
security tab for all zones. I am pretty much puzzled why it is not at a
default level as I have no policy changes applied for IE. Clicking default
level sets the user up as expected however I am a bit ...

I'm using windows xp pro on a ntfs partition and would like to set it up so
that when I add new users their My Documents folder is automatically put in a
specified place ie a different partition.
If this can be done what permissions should the partition have or will XP