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adaur
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      10-08-2008

"richard" <> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:11:53 -0500, arethusa <>
> wrote:
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>>My roommate is completely computer illiterate. I used Free AVG to
>>delouse her computer (she had over 400 malicious bugs on her
>>computer!) and then hooked us up to a secured wireless network. I
>>also firewalled her computer.
>>
>>The problem is that her computer adds a new user by itself. It's an
>>administrator and its access is password protected. I have deleted
>>the user and all of its files, run AVG again and again, but it keeps
>>adding itself back. AVG says the system is clean now. I was getting
>>warnings that there were viruses in some files in "Restore", but I
>>Googled that issue and resolved it myself. But I can't find anything
>>about new users being added without the owner's permission.
>>
>>Any ideas?

>
>
> Also, I just looked up in windows help, that if you don't know the
> administrator password and have no password disk saved, then you will
> need to reinstall windows.
>


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