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Hacker chasing me - I'm no longer recognized as administrator
Hi! I guess there must be one hacker who has really been chasing me a lot lately. I've had to use my set of restore disks several times this month, already! This last time, I downloaded Microsoft Security Essentials. But today, I'm not allowed to use it or any other files - with the error message showing of, "you need to get admiinistrator rights in order to use program" - or words to that affect. A few days ago, I set permissions to all files to being just myself and nobody else. That seemed to help for a few days. But now, I guess someone is masquerading as being the administrator of this computer, using my name - that's my guess! So my hands are tied! I guess I'll run the restore disks again today! Maybe I should just use that computer for offline work and never go online with it - would that help avoid attacks on the computer? What's your advice? Thanks!