strange security logs on the cra*top

[sekhmet]

Hi, I have been going through the files on the laptop as am sending it away next week, came across the event viewer so had a nose and there are some strange logs there all dated 12 13 and 14th November 07,this is a few months before I got the laptop.

The security log have 3 entries for the 14 november last year, 1 of these says logs cleared.

Going through the other logs, the user for these days is named as admin.

The ones since I got the laptop have user name as my name so i know they are my logs.

Although I suppose it could be where the os was installed, (Vista) why would it take 3 days and why would there be entries for internet explorer and all of the times are evenings, 4.30pm untill 10pm?

one of the fault logs has about 30 entries, it all seems a bit strange to me.

There are also a data partition with notepad entries dated 14 november 07 with some numbers on and a few empty files in computer named as programes we dont have, they look the same as empty files that are left after you have uninstalled software.?

I cant work this out?

Am I just being dim or have I been sold a secondhand laptop as new?

I cant understand why there are 3 nights worth of logs, some of which an attempt to remove them has been made???

Any ideas?????

[SharpmanTF1]

could be an ex display laptop?

[labrat]

or could be the install files for vista/xp i know when i install it the system logs leave dates for upto a few months before i brought it

[mitch161]

or it could be when you first set up your PC you set it up with admin account.. then three days later got security conscious so put a account that you passworded on 3 days later and realised, whoops you didnt set the time and date right at install..

 

so changed it to right time and date. hense the difference

 

maybe!!

[Renzokuken]

It's logs from the original installation in the factory.

 

I've seen this before, bare in mind that every laptop is usualy setup months in advance, and pre-installed so that you only need enter a minimum of details to get it running. Those logs are from the actual setup process where they installed your OS to the hard drive.

[The Chez]

Sounds very much like logs left from when the OS was installed. I don't think any company, even one as useless as PC world would dare sell a second hand item as new with the ammount of public knowledge on computers these days.

 

I imagine these logs just date back to the factory settings of the computer. If it was ex-display they would still have to sell it as that, and not new. All new equipment comes boxed and packed.

[patdavies]

Except the OS isn't 'installed' at the factory.

 

There is no installation; simply a image copy from a master; takes a few moments.

 

The logs probably exist from the master copy and will be identical on every new laptop of this make/model