I believe I have a problem that with adware that is keeping me from windows  
updates, system restore and annoying popups. I have windows xp pro, webroot
spy sweeper, avg and yahoo anti spy. Is this a registry problem and can I fix
it?

Windows 2000 Question
If I change the Enterprise Password will my Enterprise Admin get a new
SID?
Will this effect my Domain in any way?

Please help.
An Antivirus company has installed a program trying to force me to buy their
software.  Its called Antivirus 2008 by BillingWare.  It continues to pop-up
on my screen saying I have 44 virus attacks threatening my computer and will

Once I encrypted a few files on an NTFS volume on my local w2000 system
and... forgot about it.
In the meantime I changed my hardware and reinstalled my system many times,
but the files were copied each time to a new volume, by disk cloning or by

I have a fully licensed version of Windows-XP Professional.  I have what I
thought was a reasonably good security suite and update my Windows version
regularly.  I also have a "network breaker" installed.  This piece of
hardware senses the power consumption of the monitor and ...

Ever since instaling .Net version 2.0 I'm seeing some starnge issues in my
event logs.  I receive Event ID 1008 with a source of Perflib and the
following description:
The Open Procedure for service "ASP.NET_2.0.50727" in DLL

Hi, I'm having trouble trying to install new security updates which i have
downloaded via auto-update the problem is that when i chose to install them
it wont. i recently upgraded to SP3 for windows XP but i had the same trouble
before that.

I have a domain running in mixed mode which has two Server 2008 DCs and a
Server 2000 DC. The server 2000 DC holds the five FSMO roles.
I am seeing a lot of Event ID 675,676 & 681 in the security logs denoting
authentication failures.