From Leo's mailbag:
> From: A Computer User
> Sent: September 20, 2008
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: a quick way to restore administrative rights?
>
> Leo,
> administrator rights restore:
>
> after being infected with all these common viruses and trojans, a user
> usually loses his administrative rights, i.e. rights to open
> taskmanager, registry editors, RUN!, group policy editor, command
> prompt, control panel, control panel COMPONENTS (display), etc... in
> some cases.. people can't see half their start menu.. is their a way to
> restore these rights?..
>
> i'm not talking about System Restore.. usually people don't create
> restore points and viruses also DELETE restore points =S
>
> is there a tool or something to give back all my rights? =(
Not that I'm aware of. Honestly, when things are really that
messed up the safest approach is often to reinstall Windows.
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Thanks for asking,
Leo Notenboom
Article 1781
| Category:
Viruses and Malware
