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rohitk89
October 2nd, 2004, 07:08 AM
i hope i'm not being paranoid without a reason...i see that in control panel-user settings... there is a limited, password protected user account by the name 'ASP.NET Machine A...' :eek: ...it doesn show on the logon screen and i wanted somebody else's opinion before i deleted it....

Conan
October 2nd, 2004, 10:16 AM
That's a by-product of installing .NET. You can delete it, but I use Powertoys Tweak UI to hide it. In fact I think it hides it by default.

rohitk89
October 2nd, 2004, 12:33 PM
oh.. ok thanks...all fine as long as it isn't anything malicious...

joshsiao
October 2nd, 2004, 14:59 PM
I also noticed that account but I still do not know what its purpose is. If you install the recent .NETFramework update, that account disappears.

rohitk89
October 2nd, 2004, 15:27 PM
is microsoft .net 1.1 the latest version? because that is wat i have and i still see the account...

Conan
October 3rd, 2004, 00:06 AM
There's a Service Pack available for 1.1:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a8f5654f-088e-40b2-bbdb-a83353618b38&displaylang=en