I just finished cleaning up a Vista Pro system that had been badly infected.
When I got it all user accounts were locked and inaccessible, I used a password reset utility to clear unknown passwords and unlock the accounts. Initial scan with Malwarebytes found 997 items of concern. Original owner had been using frostwire music sharing service with Windows Defender as the only anti-virus protection. Every mp3 and vid. they had downloaded had a virus embedded in it and all but about 3 files (these were plain txt files) in the frostwire program directory had viruses embedded in them. Anyway it took a little while but I finally got this computer clean.
When I unlocked the administrator account it became visible on the Windows welcome/log-in screen in normal boot up mode. I would like to make it hidden again and so would the new owner. How would I do that?
I thought about renaming the account putting a “$” at the front of “administrator”, but am not sure that would work. Or is there a registry hack or some setting somewhere I’m missing?
Thanks
Joey