I needed to know is there some way to get around the windows XP security kind of -blam!- that doesnt let you go into certain -blam!- or download stuff when you are on a limited account, all i really need to do is go into a folder of another user and copy some stuff. or a way to make me an administative acount from here. and help is good
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ajenteks It's not just corporate bufoons, sadly. One day on my home network my brother told me to access some file in the shared folder of thte system he was using. I open that folder and my AVS goes off, which surprised me because at the time I was using McAfee and I had set it up on that system to do scans everyday and auto-update, probably six months before this happened. So I get on that system: Auto-updates, disabled. Auto-scanning, disabled. So I auto-update McAfee. There was upwards of 70, seperate, viruses on the one PC. After that I install and run spybot, not quite 3000, but 1500 different registry entries, cookies, and .exes. There were probably 8 different phoney pop-up blockers and 15 "searchbars" installed, along with a whole myriad of other -blam!- freeware programs. After all that, I was surprised when, the next day various siblings started complaining that they couldn't install files anymore, and that they wanted admin priviliges.[/quote] Dang.... gotta watch the kids too... I had to sit down and teach my wife to not just accept cookies from all sites, no more downloading whenever you see the box.. etc But her PC was not that bad, it only had like 140 spyware detections.