Originally Posted by Angry Jew Cat

A friend's laptop recently picked up some shitty spyware that is clogging everything up on their system. So I suggested running Spybot to clear up the junk on their machine. So they bring the laptop over and we install spybot, run it, clean all the problems it finds and then go to reboot. Upon reboot when you go to sign into windows with their password, it signs in, then immediately logs the user back out to the sign in screen. Now I'm sitting here looking like a dick It has XP with SP2 installed. Any ideas what could cause a logout like that?