Windows XP Guest Account.

From: Maher Odeh (rax@X-war.org)
Date: Sun Jul 20 2003 - 00:52:34 PDT

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    Hello,
    
    Something really weird keeps happening to me.
    I have installed WinXP SP1, and as usual, I go though manage computer and I
    change and disable users from there, the users I always keep are
    the Administrator account that I rename to admin and the guest account which
    is disabled by default but I give it a long password that I forget just
    In case this account gets enabled, now for my incident …
    
    I have been using XP for a while now and I keep noticing from while to a
    while the guest account being enabled, so I go back and disable it again
    It happened to me more than once, on a new installed system that’s not
    connected to the internet, first thing I install XP and restart the system,
    The guest account is enabled, something is fishy here I’d say … this cant be
    a Trojan as this system is newly installed without internet connection
    So I guess it could be a bug … but I think that there is a need to check it
    more in depth, what do you think ?
    
    Thanks,
    
    
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