has someone hacked in to my computer?

Whenever I attempt to shut down my computer, I get a pop-
up message that says "Someone is logged on to your
machine. Are you sure you want to log off?" I'm running
WinXP Pro as administrator and I'm wondering if this is
just me logged in or if in fact I have a vulnerability
that is being exploited which would allow others to hack
in. How can I tell if it is the latter? I have an allways-
on DSL internet connection.

Kent
Wed May 19 21:46:16 CDT 2004

Rob wrote:

> Whenever I attempt to shut down my computer, I get a pop-
> up message that says "Someone is logged on to your
> machine. Are you sure you want to log off?" I'm running
> WinXP Pro as administrator and I'm wondering if this is
> just me logged in or if in fact I have a vulnerability
> that is being exploited which would allow others to hack
> in. How can I tell if it is the latter? I have an allways-
> on DSL internet connection.

Run fsmgmt.msc and see who has a session connected to your shares.

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows Security

Lanwench
Wed May 19 22:01:45 CDT 2004

....and enable your firewall!

Kent W. England [MVP] wrote:
> Rob wrote:
>
>> Whenever I attempt to shut down my computer, I get a pop-
>> up message that says "Someone is logged on to your
>> machine. Are you sure you want to log off?" I'm running
>> WinXP Pro as administrator and I'm wondering if this is
>> just me logged in or if in fact I have a vulnerability
>> that is being exploited which would allow others to hack
>> in. How can I tell if it is the latter? I have an allways-
>> on DSL internet connection.
>
> Run fsmgmt.msc and see who has a session connected to your shares.

RichardH
Thu May 20 14:14:00 CDT 2004

Is this system used by other members of your family...etc?
If they have logged on and then switched users, or if the screen saver has
kicked in and taken you back to the logon screen that can cause this message
to appear.

However Kent and Lanwench's suggestions should also be followed!


Rich

"Rob" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:f88901c43e0f$d8ef27c0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> Whenever I attempt to shut down my computer, I get a pop-
> up message that says "Someone is logged on to your
> machine. Are you sure you want to log off?" I'm running
> WinXP Pro as administrator and I'm wondering if this is
> just me logged in or if in fact I have a vulnerability
> that is being exploited which would allow others to hack
> in. How can I tell if it is the latter? I have an allways-
> on DSL internet connection.