One of our laptops is showing a red on black notice "Spyware Infection" on
the desktop. We have cleaned up the system and re-instated antivirus tools
etc. but cannot get rid of this notice.
Under Display Properties it shows a Desktop option called "Zapotec" which we

I've been running MS antispyware (Beta 1) on my PC for sometime. I recently
got an update for Beta 2 and I downloaded it. Beta 1 still shows as an icon
on my toolbar. Windows defender (Beta 2) was downloaded into my programs.  I
expected when I downloaded Beta 2, it would replace ...

My security level keeps changing from medium to low upon startup.  I am
advised when this occurs...What is happening?

im having trouble with a virus called surf sidekick i have run numerous
virus scans and non seem to be able to delete the above virus any
suggestions.

XPSP2 in a W2K3 SP1  AD Domain
1) Control Panel USERS.... What is the difference between the basic Control
Panel USER ACCOUNTS and the Windows Management Users and Groups? I notice
that if I add people using the Control Panel USER ACCOUNTS they do not show

I have a windows box and want to take away the users ability to use the USB
ports.  what is the best way to achieve this?

I have been cleaning stuff off of my computer lately.  After performing a
defrag on my system drive I received a log that noted a number of files that
could not be defragmented.  Here's a couple:
11     448 KB          \Program Files\Xere

how can i stop dialogue box about evaluation period ending from popping up
everytime i start computer please !!!!!!!!!

I have 2 Win2K servers, 1 is my database server, 1 runs IIS
On the IIS machine I have an ASP.NET 2 application that makes a call to
a proprietry 3rd party COM Object/DLL that makes a call to a database
on server number 2.

This morning when I went to start my computer, I received the error message,
"missing or corrupt file", System 32\DRIVERS\pci.sys. How do I go about
reinstalling this file short of wiping the hard drive?

I have my window xp sp2 setup so that I use the welcome screen.  When I boot
up it brings me to the welcome screen to logon.  However, when I resume from
the screensaver is brings me to the "classic logon" box to enter my password.
Anyone know how to change it so that I get the ...

I have a windows xp Home box and would like to limit the pages users visit
to a few domains. is this possible with group policies or do I need
something else?

I’m trying to work out how index.dat files behave - in particular how they
behave when you delete them.
I’ve been deleting the index.dat files from one user account by creating a
file called indexdat.cmd that contains the following text

Help! I'm desperately trying to recover my files from a damaged version of
Windows XP home edition. The original install had a virus that Windows
Defender tried to uninstall, but ended up somehow destroying the ability of
that install to boot.

The Spy/Delf Trojan, a password stealing Trojan, sets the following...
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\srservice
Start=dword:00000004
Which disables the System Restore cache.