Strange credentials

[Guest]

When scheduling a backup with NTBackup, I get a credentials invalid error
when the task scheduler tries to run it. The credentials ("Rick Serafini")
are prefixed with "trseraf Dialup\". We are not on a domain or in a
workgroup. I suspect it is a remnant of a couple of trojans detected and
removed with eTrust Antivirus, but there appears to be some unwanted registry
data causing the problem. trseraf does correlate to one of the PC's users, T
R Serafini. This is on a Dell Dinension PX running XP with SP2 and all
critical and security updates installed.

The backup works fine when not running it through the Task Scheduler.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

811151 - How to Copy User Data to a New User Profile:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811151

I would create a new user ID, to purge the 'HKey_Current_User' corruption.