Hacked?

[Miker]

My PC was acting really sluggish last night, then this morning (AKA 1:30pm) it took 10 minutes to boot then dropped me into the "pick user account" screen with only "Miker" listed. So I opened up Control Panel and saw this, deleted it. Whats up?

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o81/mikerider123/hacked.png

[Scott]

ASP.net account is part of the .netframework from Microsoft. You can delete the account but I would keep the files. When you delete the account it will just boot up Windows with out waiting for a user name.

[Miker]

Then why when I deleted it does windows not hang on the boot screen? Before it would half fade into the "Windows XP" picture, hang for about a minute then load slowly, bar moving at 1/4 speed.

[Methious]

Another great Microshaft update?

I've seen that on a couple of computers, I don't know why it turns them into slugs loading I just delete the user account and they load fine so I let it go at that.

I guess you could call it a hack but it's a Microshaft update hack lol. I at least believe it to be a hack when Microshaft comes in and installs stuff on the sly. I usually turn off all the updating crud and do that manually.

That way when I'm benching I know "Bill" hasn't gone in and changed some thing that will skew the scores, and I tend to get less "OMG Bill jacked my rig up again" moments.

[the_dope_chaud]

lol, gotta love microsoft creating an account.....
never happened to me, then again, never have I bought a copy of windows....
love my new sig, BTW....:grin:

[AJ.]

love my new sig, BTW....

Shoot that ******* Windows! Shoot him! :lol:

[PP Mguire]

.asp is quite natural. I always deleted him in XP. So far in Vista ive never had to install a .net framework thing.

[Enigmachine]

Why would they create a visible user account for a framework anyway? Isn't that kinda... mmh let me find the correct technical term.... dumb?

It makes sense from a security point of view, but none from any other point of view at all!

[the_dope_chaud]

Why would they create a visible user account for a framework anyway? Isn't that kinda... mmh let me find the correct technical term.... dumb?
It makes sense from a security point of view, but none from any other point of view at all!

Has microsoft been know to make smart, logical and effective decisions ?

[Enigmachine]

Has microsoft been know to make smart, logical and effective decisions ?

They cancelled Microsft Bob? :D

[Xantor]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555299

ASP.NET Machine Account is created when the Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1 is installed onto a Windows XP machine.

[pokute]

what about in vista, is it hidden? I remember seeing it once on my old vista rig, but I ignored it as I was new with vista at the time.

[3991vhtes]

Just delete the ASP.NET thing, that's what I did. Maybe MS is trying to get into your pr0n?

jk