unexplained user account

[Guest]

We were having trouble with our comp being slow, so I decided to try the
guest account to see if it was problems with the desk top. When I went to
user accounts to turn guest account on, I found a user account not set up by
us and that does not show up on welcome screen. It is ASP.NET Machine A...,
Limited Account, and password protected. If I try to change password,
delete, rename, etc. it says I will lose all EFS-encrypted files, personal
certificates, and stored passwords for Web sites or network resources. We do
not know how this got there, is it maybe necessary for a download such as
limewire, it has shown up recently. Don't know if I can delete, if we've
been hacked or what, makes no sense to me.

 

[Guest]

Did you perhaps install IIS?

 

[Guest]

I don't believe so because those initials don't sound like anything to me,
but let me know what they stand for, and I could be wrong.

 

[Guest]

I just happened to be on add/remove windows components looking for a missing
game, and I now see that IIS is internet information services. It was not
checked off, so no I do not have it installed on my computer.

 

[Guest]

If you can make sure IIS is not installed on your computer.
You can delete this ASP.NET account directly and ignore the warning message.

But ASP page will not work if IIS was installed on your computer and you
deleted the account.

 

[Malke]

I just happened to be on add/remove windows components looking for a
missing
game, and I now see that IIS is internet information services. It was
not checked off, so no I do not have it installed on my computer.

The ASP.NET account has nothing to do with your computer being slow.
Here is information about the ASP.NET account:

http://www.mvps.org/marksxp/WindowsXP/aspdot.php

For your computer's slowness, make sure it is completely
virus/malware-free:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

Also see:

Slow or Sluggish Computer:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm
http://aumha.org/a/health.htm - Take Out the Trash

Malke

 

[Guest]

thankyou for all the help. I have deleted the account, and everything seems
to be working fine, so I don't think I did lose anything important. Thanks
again. Would still like to know how it got added, but oh well!

 

[Guest]

I think it is installed when you install the .Net framework. Colin

 

[Guest]

Hi Colin,
sorry not completely computer literate, what is the net framework?
Laurel