ASP.Net logged on as USER.!!???!!!!

Why would ASP.NET show up as a logged on user?
My wife had tried an online virus scan, and a few other things, and is
freaked about this new "User" that seems to be slowing the machine
down.
She was unprotected for a couple of weeks after a WXP upgrade, which
broke all the Symantec stuff she was running. Hence the concern.
(Still cannot install NAV or firewall because of embedded programs
that cannot be remove despite RNAV /RSYM, etc., so it's back to ZAP
and AVG.)

"I Fear no virus, because I have Symantec- Something worse!"


Thanks for comments about the ASP thing.

Joe Clueless, User and Failure

Go to; Start --> settings --> control panel --> users and passwords --> advanced -->
advanced --> users --> Disable the ASPNET account

Dave



"Joe Clueless, User and Failure" <> wrote in message
news:...
| Why would ASP.NET show up as a logged on user?
| My wife had tried an online virus scan, and a few other things, and is
| freaked about this new "User" that seems to be slowing the machine
| down.
| She was unprotected for a couple of weeks after a WXP upgrade, which
| broke all the Symantec stuff she was running. Hence the concern.
| (Still cannot install NAV or firewall because of embedded programs
| that cannot be remove despite RNAV /RSYM, etc., so it's back to ZAP
| and AVG.)
|
| "I Fear no virus, because I have Symantec- Something worse!"
|
|
| Thanks for comments about the ASP thing.

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 00:49:13 GMT, "David H. Lipman"
<DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote:

>Go to; Start --> settings --> control panel --> users and passwords --> advanced -->
>advanced --> users --> Disable the ASPNET account
>
Thank you for the fast answer.
Any thoughts as to how it got there? Are any ASP apps used in packaged
scumware or any drive-by installations? I see a bunch of calls to
tribalfusion in the router logs...something we never use, never want,
etc.

Thanks!

In article <>,
says...
> Why would ASP.NET show up as a logged on user?
> My wife had tried an online virus scan, and a few other things, and is
> freaked about this new "User" that seems to be slowing the machine
> down.
> She was unprotected for a couple of weeks after a WXP upgrade, which
> broke all the Symantec stuff she was running. Hence the concern.
> (Still cannot install NAV or firewall because of embedded programs
> that cannot be remove despite RNAV /RSYM, etc., so it's back to ZAP
> and AVG.)
>
> "I Fear no virus, because I have Symantec- Something worse!"

Unless you are developing .Net apps you don't need the .Net framework
installed on your system. Uninstall it if you don't need it - it was
part of the Windows Update package if you selected everything when you
run it.

Also, the .Net Framework always uses a user account (part of the IIS
stuff) so that you can apply security permissions to it.

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(Remove 999 to reply to me)

It is from Microsoft .NET Framework. Maybe there is a vulnerability that they are
exploiting.

Dave


"Joe Clueless, User and Failure" <> wrote in message
news:...
| On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 00:49:13 GMT, "David H. Lipman"
| <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote:
|
| >Go to; Start --> settings --> control panel --> users and passwords --> advanced -->
| >advanced --> users --> Disable the ASPNET account
| >
| Thank you for the fast answer.
| Any thoughts as to how it got there? Are any ASP apps used in packaged
| scumware or any drive-by installations? I see a bunch of calls to
| tribalfusion in the router logs...something we never use, never want,
| etc.
|
| Thanks!