Well, I have a sneaking suspicion it's a Windows 98 machine... We still have
a lot of those on the network being used as AS/400 terminals. Whenever I try
and do anything to it (such as shut it down, etc) it wants a login ID and
password, but the login ID is greyed out and has machinename\guest as the
username and doesn't accept any password. I tried installing AVG from remote
and it wouldn't accept any credentials I gave it.




-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 10:46 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: locating one machine

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:14 AM, John Aldrich
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I need to find a single machine that E-Eye's Conficker scanner says is
> vulnerable. I know the IP address and I know the name, but I don't know
> where this workstation is located.

  Remotely (re)set the local admin account password.  Set the
machine's security policy such that only that one account can log on
locally.  Force the computer to shut down.

  By shutting it down, if it's not in active use you get the threat
off your network.  By disabling logons, whoever tries to use it next
will call you.

-- Ben

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No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com 
Version: 8.5.285 / Virus Database: 270.11.34/2032 - Release Date: 03/31/09
06:02:00

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