Re: [vox-tech] Disturbing XP Error Message
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Robert G. Scofield wrote: My son runs Windows XP. He is home for the summer. During the school year his laptop has been connected to the U.C. Santa Cruz dorm Resnet system. At home his laptop is in his room where he has a wireless connection to the Internet by way of a router. Recently he has been getting this very disturbing error message when he shuts off his computer: Other people are logged on this computer. Shutting down Windows might cause them to lose data. Do you wish to continue? He says that he is not connected to any file sharing programs or computers. I've heard that XP itself spies on its users. Does anybody have an idea of what's going on here? This message usually arises from other computers browsing his computer through CIFS. It sounds like he has anonymous filesharing enabled or he has a guest account. I have also seen Norton Antivirus use a separate login to run antivirus tests. It is not normally feasible to use CIFS (windows networking) through a firewall (your router), but he might have a backdoor installed from being in such a hostile environment at school. Or, your use of samba (CIFS) may be triggering this. Or NAV might be running a test. I can't figure out how to reliably check who is logged on in XP. CIFS users can be identified through netbios (nbtstat -s -a yourcomputername ... the users are 03 entries, but beware that the computer itself uses an 03 entry) but fast switching users like the Norton login seem to use terminal services which I don't know how to monitor other than log out fast switch and look at the list. Linux users and processes are so much easier to understand. :-P --- Jeff NewmillerThe . . Go Live... DCN:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/BatteriesO.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --- ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Disturbing XP Error Message
That message usually results when someone logs into XP, logs off but leaves their session open, and then someone else logs in. If he is the only one using the computer, that does sound suspicious. Regardless, from the control panel - users he can turn off fast user switching or whatever it is called (I don't have WinXP in front of me). HTH, Jonathan Robert G. Scofield wrote: My son runs Windows XP. He is home for the summer. During the school year his laptop has been connected to the U.C. Santa Cruz dorm Resnet system. At home his laptop is in his room where he has a wireless connection to the Internet by way of a router. Recently he has been getting this very disturbing error message when he shuts off his computer: Other people are logged on this computer. Shutting down Windows might cause them to lose data. Do you wish to continue? He says that he is not connected to any file sharing programs or computers. I've heard that XP itself spies on its users. Does anybody have an idea of what's going on here? Thank you. Bob ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Disturbing XP Error Message
You can check for open sessions by right-clicking on my computer-manage (Can also be found in the control panel) Then expand Shared Folders-Sessions If you can't seem to find any users logged on, it won't hurt to run SpyBot and Ad-aware to clean up the machine, this should be standard practice on any windows machine that uses the internet. Alex Recently he has been getting this very disturbing error message when he shuts off his computer: Other people are logged on this computer. Shutting down Windows might cause them to lose data. Do you wish to continue? He says that he is not connected to any file sharing programs or computers. I've heard that XP itself spies on its users. Does anybody have an idea of what's going on here? Thank you. Bob ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
[vox-tech] Disturbing XP Error Message
My son runs Windows XP. He is home for the summer. During the school year his laptop has been connected to the U.C. Santa Cruz dorm Resnet system. At home his laptop is in his room where he has a wireless connection to the Internet by way of a router. Recently he has been getting this very disturbing error message when he shuts off his computer: Other people are logged on this computer. Shutting down Windows might cause them to lose data. Do you wish to continue? He says that he is not connected to any file sharing programs or computers. I've heard that XP itself spies on its users. Does anybody have an idea of what's going on here? Thank you. Bob ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
