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I hooked up the internet by wire and disconnected the wireless antenna completely. I downloaded rootrepeal and it won't run on the Vista 64. Downloaded the Rooter and it was interrupted and would not finish.
 
Ok I am totally floored. I have been saying forever someone aside from me is running this computer but not being knowledgable about networks and network security I never knew to look any where else. Today as my XP was behaving more horribly I decided to start scanning all my important files to save to external hard drive so I could restore my computer. Antivirus stopped working so I uninstalled with the intention of reinstalling but when computer restarted I had my desktop photo with nothing else. I started in safe mode and to my surprise saw another computer administrator account besides mine. When I went to user accounts. The account is named computer administrator. It says the administrator account is only visible.on the welcome screen when no other user accounts except guest exist. My account has my name and indicates it is an admin account as well. Obviously I need to rid myself of this other admin but don't know how. Checked sons computer his is the only admin acct. I added a password to it since it was not passworded before but that won't last for something this sophisticated. Just don't know what to do next!
 
Donna,

I have been without power since noon yesterday, sitting in a coffee shop with WiFi right now so I dont know when I will be back online.

Your sons computer shows no signs of infection, what spybot found may have been remenants of one that was present but its not present now.

With the problems your having with your own computer, I am afraid we are at a dead end, the only thing I can suggest is to do a compete format and reinstall of the operating system, if you feel that would be over your head than you may need to bring it to a shop and have it done professionally.


That might not be a bad idea for your sons computer also, it might be best for the both of you to start with brand new installs.

Ken
 
I am sorry to hear about the power, and you know after being without it for 4 days last week I sympathize with you.
Yes Ken ... after I saw the other users account :eek:, it confirmed it for me that I would need to do the complete restore. I am in the process of backing up files now. Is it better to burn everything to DVD's or put it on the external hard drive? At this point, I don't think it is virus or malware any longer. I think that someone got into my computer, set up their own administrator account and used my computer for other things .... is this when computer's become those "bot" machines I hear talked about? After I do the restore where should I go to get help with my security settings? I have a firewall router which, if used correctly should get me some good protection. I am interested in port blocking etc.
Do you have any forum suggestions for help like that?
 
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