Weird Account

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  1. Nebula

    Nebula Occasionally Frequent Registered Senior Member

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    I just went into XP's account manager thing to remove my password and I saw that there was another account on mycomputer called ASP.NET or something. It was a limited account, without a PW so I just deleted. Does anyone know what the hell that was? When I started up, it never gave me the option to use that account or switch to that account once logged on...weird.
     
    Nebula, Nov 4, 2003
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  3. curioucity

    curioucity Unbelievable and odd Registered Senior Member

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    Your system was hacked, maybe?
     
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  5. Stryder

    Stryder Keeper of "good" ideas. Valued Senior Member

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    Well I'm going to guestimate here, but since it has ASP mentioned in the account name I would guess it was an account to allow accesses to programs served from your machine as ASP (Active Server Pages)

    On a linux system you would see from the file structure and a webserver like apache that files that are viewed on the internet need to be "Others" enabled. Others being different from a server running at user or group privileges.

    Windows on the otherhand is a bit different, since it doesn't use that architecture (In fact only NFTS allows multiple user privilege access).

    the ASP.NET account might have been created as apart of some package like a webdevelopment one of something similar.

    hope that aids.
     
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  7. malkiri

    malkiri Registered Senior Member

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    You weren't hacked...it's just an account that gets created when you install some .NET packages. Here's a posting to comp.security.misc:

     
    malkiri, Nov 4, 2003
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