ASP.Net Account, Performance Settings, and Data Execution Prevention

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I noticed two extra profiles here:

rundll32.exe shell32.dll, Control_RunDLL sysdm.cpl,,3

Under the User Profiles, Settings button.

I don't know how they got there. Also, when I went into
user accounts, I noticed an ASP.Net account created
there. I don't know how that got there.

I removed the ASP.Net account. I didn't put it there
knowingly. I don't know what that is used for, being
that I am trying to keep all .Net off the system.

1) Any comments on the ASP.Net thing would be helpful.
2) How does a profile get created without me explicitly
creating it ? Two of them were created. And how do I
figure out where those profiles are stored ? The only
things I see is that they are identified as Unknown and
there appears what seems to be a date of creation.

And something else I've noticed is that there is an
extra tab in XP SP2 for Data Execution Prevention
if you run the command above and click on the
Performance, Settings button. Just passing along
information about it, because it took me by surprise
while I was playing around with the command above,
trying to figure out how to open the Performance,
Settings dialog. If anyone knows how to open the
Performance Settings dialog, that would be great!

Thanks for any help, comments, etc.
 
ASP.Net: It is installed during the .Net Framework update/install.

You will need it before you won't. It doesn't cause any harm from being
there.
 
Jim said:
I noticed two extra profiles here:

rundll32.exe shell32.dll, Control_RunDLL sysdm.cpl,,3

Under the User Profiles, Settings button.

I don't know how they got there. Also, when I went into
user accounts, I noticed an ASP.Net account created
there. I don't know how that got there.

I removed the ASP.Net account. I didn't put it there
knowingly. I don't know what that is used for, being
that I am trying to keep all .Net off the system.

1) Any comments on the ASP.Net thing would be helpful.
2) How does a profile get created without me explicitly
creating it ? Two of them were created. And how do I
figure out where those profiles are stored ? The only
things I see is that they are identified as Unknown and
there appears what seems to be a date of creation.

And something else I've noticed is that there is an
extra tab in XP SP2 for Data Execution Prevention
if you run the command above and click on the
Performance, Settings button. Just passing along
information about it, because it took me by surprise
while I was playing around with the command above,
trying to figure out how to open the Performance,
Settings dialog. If anyone knows how to open the
Performance Settings dialog, that would be great!

Thanks for any help, comments, etc.
Click to expand...

DEP is one of the new features in SP2.

Changes to Functionality in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
Part 3: Memory Protection Technologies
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2mempr.mspx
 
Thanks. I just uninstalled .Net 1.1. There was an
option to uninstall in

Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs.

Deleted the %SystemRoot%\Microsoft.Net folder
as well to get rid of that .Net stuff.

Deleted the ASP .Net user account as well.

Still trying to figure where the two extra profiles came
from. And more importantly what's in them. The last
time I deleted a profile, it deleted everything in some
valid My Documents folders. What I'm really seeking:

How to determine which %UserProfile% they
represent. I'm sure that information is in the registry.

I just don't see a Microsoft approved way to get that
info. Microsoft left some things out of the operating
system and it poses a valid security vulnerability to
systems.

If they didn't leave it out, ie, an easy manner in which
to investigate what profiles belong to who,and where
those profiles information is stored, then I'm ignorant
and the details are not readily apparent. Microsoft
should provide a discussion about the topic.

1) If the end user doesn't recognize the security risk,
then it is a security risk and Microsoft put the security
risk into play.

2) If it continues to be a security risk, Microsoft then
continues allowing it to be a security risk.

3) Microsoft can NOT put all the blame on the end user.
Microsoft created the problem and they hereby are
informed of the problem and are requested to provide a
logical easy to understand fix to the problem.

4) This represents legal notification to Microsoft.

Thanks for the help Kelly. If you happen to know of a
way to connect the Unknown profiles to a specific
%UserProfile% within the registry, that would be great!

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Jim Carlock
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ASP.Net: It is installed during the .Net Framework update/install.

You will need it before you won't. It doesn't cause any harm from being
there.
 
:-)

After removing .Net 1.1, scrollbars are back to normal.
Outlook Express is running and looking better without
funky scroll bar/thumb positioning problems.

Outlook Express is not the only program that gets funky
scrollbar problems when .Net 1.1 is installed. Some
other apps were displaying those problems as well. The
problem that was happening with the thumb, was that the
thumb would never hit the bottom and there appeared to
be some margin problem inside of textboxes.

Also, I've found that the profiles are stored in the following
key:
HKLM\SW\MS\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileGuid

And maybe something else appies from this key:
HKLM\SW\MS\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

--
Jim Carlock
http://www.microcosmotalk.com/
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:
ASP.Net: It is installed during the .Net Framework update/install.

You will need it before you won't. It doesn't cause any harm from being
there.
 
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