I was cleaning up this Compaq Presario F700 Win Vista Home Premium when I stumbled across a hidden .docx file. Not being familiar with that extension I investigated a bit further... I googled the extension found out that it is a extension designed to make an Office document into an html file (with some format loss). Is that correct? Investigating further I clicked on properties>security tab and ran across something interesting. In the group or user names an unidentified account user appears! It is 'Account Unknown(S-15-21-2817377724-365178722-714591354-1001) Does anyone know any legitimate Win Vista OS account like this? Thanks ahead of time for your responses! StarBaseONE2 -- StarBaseONE2
StarBaseONE2 wrote: > > I was cleaning up this Compaq Presario F700 Win Vista Home Premium when > I stumbled across a hidden .docx file. Not being familiar with that > extension I investigated a bit further... I googled the extension found > out that it is a extension designed to make an Office document into an > html file (with some format loss). Is that correct? > > Investigating further I clicked on properties>security tab and ran > across something interesting. In the group or user names an unidentified > account user appears! > It is 'Account Unknown(S-15-21-2817377724-365178722-714591354-1001) > > Does anyone know any legitimate Win Vista OS account like this? > > Thanks ahead of time for your responses! Files with the .docx extension are Microsoft Word documents created with MS Word 2007. There's nothing inherently sinister about them. I can't answer your question about the account. What does "cleaning up" mean? Did you have some reason to suspect the computer is infected? Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ
On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:51:57 -0500, StarBaseONE2 wrote: > >I was cleaning up this Compaq Presario F700 Win Vista Home Premium when >I stumbled across a hidden .docx file. Not being familiar with that >extension I investigated a bit further... I googled the extension found >out that it is a extension designed to make an Office document into an >html file (with some format loss). Is that correct? > >Investigating further I clicked on properties>security tab and ran >across something interesting. In the group or user names an unidentified >account user appears! >It is 'Account Unknown(S-15-21-2817377724-365178722-714591354-1001) > >Does anyone know any legitimate Win Vista OS account like this? > >Thanks ahead of time for your responses! > >StarBaseONE2 http://www.vistax64.com/vista-account-administration/69763-unknown-account.html -- "...Amusing, yet not without a certain understated omniscience"
Cleaning up means like Windows Defender scan Clearing up all the temp files... You know regular maintenance. Yes I wasn't terribly worried about the the extension as was the surprise account that I can't seem to find reference to anywhere else... StarBaseONE2 -- StarBaseONE2
