Good morning. I was having trouble with one of our workstations and noticed in Documents and Settings that there were at least 5 Administrator accounts, each with different extensions. We are running a network with 10 workstations connected to a Windows 2000 server. The server is also an Exchange server. All the user profiles are stored on the server. Hope I explained this ok, basically I want to make sure we aren't being hacked or something. Thanks.

If you don't know who the legitimate admins are then you got more problems to worry about then someone hacking you. If you’re running the network and you don't know or recognize the admin names then take them out. We don't know your network or the people that work there so we have no way to tell you if your being hacked. Pull the names out you don't know and then watch your system.

Thanks MBrook, yeah we name are users by using parts of their first and last names, but this machine has the following: Admin~1~000 Administrator Administrator.HCCM Administrator.HCCM.000 HCCM being our organization. Maybe the previous IT guy made those different ones, I just know that "Administrator" is the default admin on the machine, not the other three. If they don't mean anything then I will take them out and leave the Administrator account. Thanks for the help.

Go in and change the passwords on the Admin accounts you aren't using and if anyone complains you'll know if they're needed or not. As a rule always have a "backup" admin account with Administrator privileges with a password stored in a safe somewhere that you can get at. Then if you somehow hose your admin account/password you can recover from the backup w/o reloading Windows. Five backups is a little extreme, however.