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New User created without my permission by "SYSTEM"
Hi All,
After a recent reboot last week I wound up at an unfamiliar "choose user" screen during the windows start-up process. I personally didn't create a user, and this user just appeared out of nowhere. So I thought nothing of it, logged on, deleted user from the management console and went on with my day. I rebooted within the next day or two and the user magically reappeared. I am now a little fed up, and a little worried.
I traced back to the first time the user was created in the windows security logs, and it turns out the user was created by the SYSTEM account after the SYSTEM account acquired new permissions. Maybe I am reading too far into this, but any help will be appreciated. Attached to this post is the error log. The Errors logged were in the middle of the night, and over a course of 30 minutes. As mentioned before, this user does not exist in the registry, or "control userpasswords2", but comes up in the management console and "users" menu in the control panel.
Last edited by lczaplicki; 25 Feb 2013 at 23:25.