No. I am the one who set it up on a clean fdisked hd and I installed all of
the software and am the only one to use it. There is no way the name and
phone number could have got there...rich
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: PCWorks: Registry name
> If there was some installed software when you bought the machine, its
> not uncommon for the shop to use a master disk (not really a master,
> just keep using the same one), then they include the new blank with your
> machine. But in the course of installing this, they will use a default
> name and other info as required. I've seen reports of this on other
> lists. I don't think that anyone is hacking into your machine, its just
> the initial setup was done with a disk other than yours and that carried
> the name and number.
>
> Richard Thomas wrote:
> >
> > While installing a printer on my personal computer that was just loaded
> two
> > days earlier, the registration wizard came up and had a foreign name in
> the
> > box that mine should be in. I changed it to mine then the next page had
a
> > unfamiliar phone number in it. I went to regedit and checked for
installed
> > name and it was mine. How could this happen. I am concerned that someone
> has
> > hacked into my computer and put there personal information for whatever
> > reason in it. I do use zone alarm and I am on DSL. Does anyone know what
> > might have happened..rich
>
>
> --
> Keith Thompson, Worthington, OH
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