Colin Nash [MVP] wrote:
|| ||| marquis2222 wrote:
||||| I have always had the guest account off and never used it. But I
||||| was surprised when I ran Belarc Advisor to see that the guest
||||| account had been logged onto two days ago?
||||| I then logged onto the guest account this morning and belarc now
||||| shows that I did.
||||| Would there have been a hacker accesssing the guest account the
||||| other day?
|||
||| Ah. This is something I've run into. Even though Control
||| Panel-Users shows the guest account is off, if you go to control
||| panel-Administrative tools-Computer management-Users and Groups it
||| will tell you the guest account is ON!!!! Turn it off there.
||| WHY on earth MS decided that if you turn off guest account in
||| Control Panel - user accounts it isn't really turned off, I have no
||| idea! Just more not-joined-up thinking from MS I guess.
|||
||
|| It's used for networking between XP machines... by default, machines
|| that are not in a domain will attempt to authenticate as Guest.
||
||
|| See...
||
||
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prde_ffs_ypuh.asp
|| and
||
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=290403
||
But only in Home Edition AFAIK?
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