I need to get rid of a very annoying company that a stupid friend of mine
installed and apparently agreed to. It's called popcorn.com and they keep
sending me huge, loud and un-ignorable messages every other minute. They will
continue forever if I don't pay them a large amount of ...

I reset my widows password and now I forgot it. I can't get into my personal
settings, or get to my personal files. Please help!!!

Can anyone help me to know if it's possible to use NTFS encryption on an
external USB portable drive and be able to access the content from two
different computers?
I have a desktop and laptop both running XP Pro. I have an identical user

I've just recently started a new job and one of my responsibilites is
managing 30 new PC's 15 with XP Pro and 15 with Win2000. Because the
computers are logging into a Linux file server to authenticate a user (really
just a workgroup)  has given the PC users free reighn do what ...

I am using XP Pro on 2 notebooks. I have just set them up on a peer-to-peer
connection with each other. The data encryption is set to WEP, however from
what I am reading this is a vulnerable method. These notebooks will be used
in meeting environments where corporate espionage is ...

I'm unable to change the settings in WIndows Firewall as a message indicate
that setting are controlled by group policy.  Which part of the GP Policy
need to change in order to enable changes in Firewall?

After applying a dumb security configuration to my machine using secedit, I
lost the verbose view of my security log. Is there an efficient way to repair
it?
Regards,

Ok, here's the deal.
I have an XP sp2 system that seems to not want to log into the domain anymore.
So what do I do, I run the Network Idenification Wizard to re-join the
system to the domain.  But now, the user of the system has lost all their

My Trend Micro AV is advising that nnnligh.dll in c:\windows\system32 is a
generic trojan (Win XP SP2).
Trend Micro is unable to quarantine, clean or delete the file.
Manual attempts to delete the file are met with 'access is denied', whether

Having recently started a course at college I have invested in a new PC. The
nachine came with Media Centre pre-installed with a recovery partition. The
official stickers attached to the system case. After making a few mistakes I
was forced to reinstall a couple of times.

My computer constantly tells me that my copy of windows is not valid although
it definately is... is this a bug? or how do i stop it (preferably without
having to reinstall windows...)

I have two machines running XP Pro with all updates. With one I can right
click the drive letter and select the Security tab to see and change
permissions. On the other machine, the Security tab is not displayed for
either the drive root or any directories of files. This is true ...

I have discovered that my PC is full of malicious spyware and trojans. I had
eTrust anti-virus and personal firewall, as recommended by my cable internet
company, and they did not stop these trojans. I have windows defender now,
and although it has stopped several malicious ...

I cannot access my laptop:
1. I had a contractor working on my house.
2. I decided to secure my laptop by entering my password
3. I believe I misspelled my password when I entered it the 2nd time

I'm using msconfig to remove all the startup items I can from my son's PC and
found an entry for MSWin.exe that we don't have on our other computers.  The
path name is C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start
Menu\Programs\Startup\MSWin.exe