Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer

I'd like to urge anyone having strange (or not so strange) problems to run
this program, available free at the Microsoft website. I had a problem with
Outlook that I got no satisfactory answers to in this forum, and after
running the Analyzer, discovered that my computer had been compromised by a
"remote administrator". After following all the suggestions that it gave me,
my computer became stable again.

While that tool is more for a server environment, it certainly won't hurt to
run it on a home system. Link:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../mbsahome.mspx

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Steppenwolf" wrote in message
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I'd like to urge anyone having strange (or not so strange) problems to run
this program, available free at the Microsoft website. I had a problem
with
Outlook that I got no satisfactory answers to in this forum, and after
running the Analyzer, discovered that my computer had been compromised by
a
"remote administrator". After following all the suggestions that it gave
me,
my computer became stable again.