Random Guest User Appeared?

Since i downloaded and updated iOS5 on my iphone and got iCloud Etc. all of a sudden i have a 'Random Guest User' on my login screen.
I Went into System Pref. and tried to delete it but it wont allow me to.
It says "Sharing User" underneath it.
Can anyone help me?
Much appreciated.
Neil

This has also happened to me.
EDIT: Solution: http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/13/disable-guest-user-account-mac-os-x-10-7-2-login- screen/

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Everything else is in English (or set to English) as far as I can see, and my Macbook is only a couple of weeks old. All system updates have been performed and permissions have been repaired.
It displays it in Finnish (Suomi) as 'Vierastilin käyttäjä' only when logged in, in the System Preferencess user list and apple menu (where you would normally select 'Log Out Guest User'). I cant find anyone else with the same problem online. I am in the UK, purchased the Macbook on the UK Apple Store online, and I have never been to Finland or selected anything to do with Finland or its language. Everything else is in English.
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Thanks for the reply. I only have English - Primary but I guess I could add Finland and then delete it...
Okay, tried that, lots of variations including deleting all other languages and only using Finnish, and then using only British English etc - when guest is in Finnish the whole lot becomes Finnish/Suomi (see attached photos to compare with the ones above) - then when you delete Finnish and go back to English, everything is Englisg apart from 'Vierastilin käyttäjä' as above.
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It's rather odd that you need an admin password when you are the only user on it. This leads me to something malicious. Just to be safe, Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs on the Windows computer. 
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*Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware: http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
*AdwCleaner: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/ http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Removal-Tools/AdwCleaner.shtml
*SuperAntispyware: http://www.superantispyware.com/
*Microsoft Safety Scanner: http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx
*Windows Defender: Home Page: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx
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*Kasperky Free Security Scan: http://www.kaspersky.com/security-scan
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Process: uCalendarX [750]
Path: /Applications/uCalendarX 3.2.3/uCalendarX 3-2-3.app/Contents/MacOS/uCalendarX
Identifier: com.riuz.ucalendarx
Version: 3.2.3 (3.2.3)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [289]
Date/Time: 2012-02-20 00:38:48.931 -0500
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.7.3 (11D50b)
Report Version: 9
Interval Since Last Report: 2463 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 3
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 30 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 3
Anonymous UUID: 0CA8DA26-8927-4AC3-B35F-3B2E9FD65A8E
Crashed Thread: 4
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x000000008bcc45ab
External Modification Warnings:
Thread creation by external task.
VM Regions Near 0x8bcc45ab:
 CoreServices 0000000004fd0000-00000000051ee000 [ 2168K] rw-/rwx SM=COW
-->
 __TEXT 000000008fe52000-000000008fe85000 [ 204K] r-x/rwx SM=COW /usr/lib/dyld
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objc[750]: garbage collection is OFF
Thread 0:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x920136e6 __open + 10
1 libFontParser.dylib 0x9cc5b403 TFileDescriptorContext::TFileDescriptorContext(char const*) + 77
2 libFontParser.dylib 0x9cc5b1c5 TFileDataReference::TFileDataReference(char const*) + 65
3 libFontParser.dylib 0x9cc5b056 TFileDataSurrogate::TFileDataSurrogate(char const*, bool) + 136
4 libFontParser.dylib 0x9cc59af3 TFont::CreateFontEntitiesForFile(char const*, bool, TSimpleArray<TFont*>&, bool, short, char const*) + 2581
5 libFontParser.dylib 0x9cc58a7a FPFontCreateFontsWithPath + 193
6 libCGXType.A.dylib 0x950164b0 create_private_data_with_path + 26
7 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x95349ecf CGFontCreateFontsWithPath + 33
8 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x95349b09 CGFontCreateFontsWithURL + 442
9 com.apple.CoreText 0x90e1c1aa TCGFont::TCGFont(__CFURL const*, bool) + 90
10 com.apple.CoreText 0x90e1bfb2 TCGFontCache::CopyFont(__CFURL const*) const + 92
11 com.apple.CoreText 0x90e1be6c TBaseFont::CopyNativeFont() const + 50
12 com.apple.CoreText 0x90e1bd6f TTableStore::CopyTable(unsigned int, TCFRetained<__CFData const*>&) + 81
13 com.apple.CoreText 0x90e1bade TBaseFont::CopyTable(unsigned int) const + 72
14 com.apple.CoreText 0x90e1ba0f TcmapTable::TcmapTable(TBaseFont const&) + 31
15 com.apple.CoreText 0x90e1b8fd TBaseFont::GetGlyphsForCharacterRange(CFRange, unsigned short*) const + 27
16 com.apple.CoreText 0x90e1b79b TASCIIDataCache::TASCIIDataCache(TBaseFont const*) + 83
17 com.apple.CoreText 0x90e1b70f TBaseFont::CreateASCIIDataCache() const + 47
18 com.apple.CoreText 0x90e1b690 TFont::InitAdvanceCache() const + 42
19 com.apple.CoreText 0x90e1b4ad TASCIIEncoder::Encode() + 45
20 com.apple.CoreText 0x90e4433f TGlyphEncoder::EncodeChars(CFRange, TAttributes const&, TGlyphList<TDeletedGlyphIndex>&, TGlyphEncoder::Fallbacks) + 925
21 com.apple.CoreText 0x90e19ff6 TTypesetterAttrString::Initialize(__CFAttributedString const*) + 322
22 com.apple.CoreText 0x90e19b9d CTLineCreateWithAttributedString + 47
23 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x963d2b2d TCoreTextEngine::LayoutSingleLine(THIThemeTextInfo*, float) + 23
24 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x963d2a9a TCoreTextEngine::Layout(THIThemeTextInfo*, float, float, TextLayoutType) + 64
25 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x963ad2c9 TCoreTextEngine::VerifyLayout(THIThemeTextInfo*, float, float, LayoutIntent) + 309
26 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x96410b0a TCoreTextEngine::GetThemeTextDimensions(float, THIThemeTextInfo*, float*, float*, float*) + 54
27 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9640fc51 DataEngine::GetTextDimensions(void const*, float, HIThemeTextInfo*, float*, float*, float*) + 283
28 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x963d1fc5 HIThemeGetTextDimensions + 187
29 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x963d1ca3 HIMenuBarView::MeasureMenuTitle(MenuData*, unsigned char, float*, int, unsigned char*) + 451
30 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x963d1a49 HIMenuBarView::MeasureAppMenus() + 261
31 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x963abb5d HIMenuBarView::EnsureBarLayout() + 489
32 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x963ab152 HIMenuBarView::DrawSelf(short, __HIShape const*, CGContext*) + 520
33 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x963aac22 HIView::DrawCacheOrSelf(short, __HIShape const*, CGContext*) + 86
34 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x963aaa42 HIView::SendDraw(short, OpaqueGrafPtr*, __HIShape const*, CGContext*) + 124
35 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x964395c7 HIView::RecursiveDrawComposited(__HIShape const*, __HIShape const*, unsigned long, HIView*, CGContext*, unsigned char, float) + 755
36 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x964398b9 HIView::RecursiveDrawComposited(__HIShape const*, __HIShape const*, unsigned long, HIView*, CGContext*, unsigned char, float) + 1509
37 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9643a86b HIView::DrawComposited(short, OpaqueGrafPtr*, __HIShape const*, unsigned long, HIView*, CGContext*) + 1227
38 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9643a9b3 HIView::Draw(short, OpaqueGrafPtr*, unsigned long) + 81
39 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9643ad7b HIView::Render(unsigned long, CGContext*) + 45
40 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x963d084f WindowData::PrepareForVisibility() + 137
41 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x963cf893 _ShowHideWindows + 355
42 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x963cf728 ShowHide + 44
43 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x96399b09 _GetMenuBarWindow + 872
44 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x96399765 GetMenuBarView(MenuData*, unsigned char) + 74
45 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x963a2f3a MBarMenuRgn + 26
46 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x963a2d27 _ZL7ShowBar21MenuBarAnimationStylehhh + 281
47 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x963cd42a _ZL21UpdateAggregateUIMode21MenuBarAnimationStylehh + 772
48 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x963e38e5 ShowMenuBar + 163
49 com.apple.AppKit 0x001a9cad -[NSApplication finishLaunching] + 1331
50 com.apple.AppKit 0x001a9374 -[NSApplication run] + 142
51 com.apple.AppKit 0x0043d261 NSApplicationMain + 1054
52 com.riuz.ucalendarx 0x00001eea _start + 216
53 com.riuz.ucalendarx 0x00001e11 start + 4

Thanks for thinking about my problem. I've already experimented with creating a new user, a co-administrator. The programs don't crash when that account is running, just as they don't crash when the guest-user's account runs. So it seems that the problem is limited to the default user's account, which is the one that was running when I installed the updates to the OS and the firmware. Another clue is that the programs that crash as soon as they are launched are *probably* the ones that were open at that time in that account. Yet deleting Saved Application States does not keep the programs from crashing when next launched.
So the mystery continues, but these additional facts will help with the diagnosis, I hope.
Thanks again for your suggestion.
Gordon

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I did not have the guest user account available and then after I changed some of my setting for my mail, I noticed that when I logged back in the guest user icon was present. I do not want to have this guest user account on my log in screen. I tried to delete it from my system preferences but all it does is disable the guest user but the icon still appears. I need some help!

http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/13/disable-guest-user-account-mac-os-x-10-7-2-login- screen/
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Open System Preferences
Click on “Security & Privacy”
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Check the box next to “Disable restarting to Safari when screen is locked”
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dana2208 wrote:
My MacBook Pro will not let me log on. How do I fix this? Can apple reset it?
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Password doesn't work?
If so, try resetting it. If the computer is having any other problem, take it to the Apple store to have it checked out.
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Start the computer,then press and hold down command and R keys to start into recovery partition.
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Reenter the new password for the user.
Enter a hint.
Click the "Save" button.
Click  in the menubar and select Restart.
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