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No access to CD, not authorized, Admin.
Hi,
As far as I know, I am the administrator of my own computer. There are no other users and no other passwords involved in logging onto the computer. However, I cannot access my CD ROM drive for the purpose of installing programs. My device is working properly and there is no problem with the driver. The hardware is okay, as far as my testing goes. When I insert a CD for the purpose of installation, I get a message which basically says that I am not authorized to access the CD ROM drive ... but there is no one else and there is no Administrator other than myself! Does anyone know why I would be getting this error message? I just rebuilt my computer after being infected with dozens of Trojan and malware programs. Everything is all okay, with this one exception. I notice too that VPN, Client for Microsoft Windows, Family Logon, and Windows Logons are all options for my network even though I am not on a network. There are no tabs to show who is the Administrator and if I create more identities they will only be the same level as myself. Can I fix the administrative rights to my computer through the Edit Registry feature? --- Or, is something else wrong? Thank you in advance! Joan |
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You may have a virus/spyware hijack
download the Stinger from here and run it to make sure that A-V-disabling viruses are not present on your PC http://download.nai.com/products/mca...rt/stinger.exe - update your virus scanner and run a full system scan of all files. Reboot to Safe Mode and run CWShredder - to remove variants of the CoolWebSearch hijacker. http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html Use CWShredder, the removal tool: http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip http://www.merijn.org/files/CWShredder.exe http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads...CWShredder.exe http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip download AdAware from www.lavasoftusa.com, install, update, and run it to remove spyware, adware, and other such nasties from your system. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Joan" wrote in message ... Hi, As far as I know, I am the administrator of my own computer. There are no other users and no other passwords involved in logging onto the computer. However, I cannot access my CD ROM drive for the purpose of installing programs. My device is working properly and there is no problem with the driver. The hardware is okay, as far as my testing goes. When I insert a CD for the purpose of installation, I get a message which basically says that I am not authorized to access the CD ROM drive ... but there is no one else and there is no Administrator other than myself! Does anyone know why I would be getting this error message? I just rebuilt my computer after being infected with dozens of Trojan and malware programs. Everything is all okay, with this one exception. I notice too that VPN, Client for Microsoft Windows, Family Logon, and Windows Logons are all options for my network even though I am not on a network. There are no tabs to show who is the Administrator and if I create more identities they will only be the same level as myself. Can I fix the administrative rights to my computer through the Edit Registry feature? --- Or, is something else wrong? Thank you in advance! Joan |
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Hi Noel,
Thank you. I will try this HOWEVER I just rebuilt my entire computer from scratch, including a complete reformatting of the hard drive. I reloaded all of my original computer data from the drive which is not allowing me to access it now. How could the drive be hijacked if I used it for an entire rebuild? Does that make sense? Thanks! Joan -----Original Message----- You may have a virus/spyware hijack download the Stinger from here and run it to make sure that A-V-disabling viruses are not present on your PC http://download.nai.com/products/mca...rt/stinger.exe - update your virus scanner and run a full system scan of all files. Reboot to Safe Mode and run CWShredder - to remove variants of the CoolWebSearch hijacker. http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html Use CWShredder, the removal tool: http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip http://www.merijn.org/files/CWShredder.exe http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads...CWShredder.exe http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip download AdAware from www.lavasoftusa.com, install, update, and run it to remove spyware, adware, and other such nasties from your system. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Joan" wrote in message ... Hi, As far as I know, I am the administrator of my own computer. There are no other users and no other passwords involved in logging onto the computer. However, I cannot access my CD ROM drive for the purpose of installing programs. My device is working properly and there is no problem with the driver. The hardware is okay, as far as my testing goes. When I insert a CD for the purpose of installation, I get a message which basically says that I am not authorized to access the CD ROM drive ... but there is no one else and there is no Administrator other than myself! Does anyone know why I would be getting this error message? I just rebuilt my computer after being infected with dozens of Trojan and malware programs. Everything is all okay, with this one exception. I notice too that VPN, Client for Microsoft Windows, Family Logon, and Windows Logons are all options for my network even though I am not on a network. There are no tabs to show who is the Administrator and if I create more identities they will only be the same level as myself. Can I fix the administrative rights to my computer through the Edit Registry feature? --- Or, is something else wrong? Thank you in advance! Joan . |
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If you reloaded ANY data from the original drive then cleanliness cannot be
guaranteed. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Joan" wrote in message ... Hi Noel, Thank you. I will try this HOWEVER I just rebuilt my entire computer from scratch, including a complete reformatting of the hard drive. I reloaded all of my original computer data from the drive which is not allowing me to access it now. How could the drive be hijacked if I used it for an entire rebuild? Does that make sense? Thanks! Joan -----Original Message----- You may have a virus/spyware hijack download the Stinger from here and run it to make sure that A-V-disabling viruses are not present on your PC http://download.nai.com/products/mca...rt/stinger.exe - update your virus scanner and run a full system scan of all files. Reboot to Safe Mode and run CWShredder - to remove variants of the CoolWebSearch hijacker. http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html Use CWShredder, the removal tool: http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip http://www.merijn.org/files/CWShredder.exe http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads...CWShredder.exe http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip download AdAware from www.lavasoftusa.com, install, update, and run it to remove spyware, adware, and other such nasties from your system. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Joan" wrote in message ... Hi, As far as I know, I am the administrator of my own computer. There are no other users and no other passwords involved in logging onto the computer. However, I cannot access my CD ROM drive for the purpose of installing programs. My device is working properly and there is no problem with the driver. The hardware is okay, as far as my testing goes. When I insert a CD for the purpose of installation, I get a message which basically says that I am not authorized to access the CD ROM drive ... but there is no one else and there is no Administrator other than myself! Does anyone know why I would be getting this error message? I just rebuilt my computer after being infected with dozens of Trojan and malware programs. Everything is all okay, with this one exception. I notice too that VPN, Client for Microsoft Windows, Family Logon, and Windows Logons are all options for my network even though I am not on a network. There are no tabs to show who is the Administrator and if I create more identities they will only be the same level as myself. Can I fix the administrative rights to my computer through the Edit Registry feature? --- Or, is something else wrong? Thank you in advance! Joan . |
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