It may be possible for a program to corrupt the Local Security Policy settings on a Windows 2000-based computer and assign incorrect perrmissions to an unauthenticated user.

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To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

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Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 1.

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For related information about this problem, please visit the following Microsoft Web site: For additional security-related information about Microsoft products, please visit the following Microsoft Web site:

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