Greetings:
Enable your Windows XP Firewall,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;283673&Product=winxp
Update your Operating System,
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/default.asp
Download the latest critical security patches,
http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/default.mspx
Update your antivirus program.
Make sure you have Ownership of files starting from the C:\drive and take
ownership if necessary once you've done so, as per instructions in the
following link, you will be able to delete any file or folder.
Describes how to take ownership of files or folders that you may not have
permissions for if you are an administrator for that computer.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421&Product=winxp
In Windows XP, you can apply special access permissions to files or
folders that are located on NTFS file system volumes. Special access
permissions are customizable sets of permissions. This article describes how
to set, view, change, or remove special permissions...
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308419&Product=winxp
Run scans to detect spyware in your system,
Download the following programs an scan you computer for spyware.
Ad-aware6.0 from;
http://lavasoft.element5.com/software/adaware/
Spybot Search & Destroy from;
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?lang=en&page=download
Spy-Killer 2004 from;
https://secure.spykiller.com/secureorder1.asp?ref=0&spys=
Hope this helps.
--------------------Original Message-------------
razion_69 said:
some how some way someone is always in the background as remote user. id
like to keep this from happinning. i often find hidden files that are
blocking normal threads ." NTUSER.dat" . there all over and you cant delete
them. any help would be appr. im running XPHOME on dsl lan.
