Re: forgotten password

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"norm" <noone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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M.I.5¾ wrote:
"Holz" <none@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:58:32 -0500, Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote:

Reformat and reinstall your Windows operating system.
God you are an idiot. And you call yourself an MVP? there are 10 ways to
crack/replace XP password without even sweating, and no surprise, they
are
all *nix utilities. I posted one for you down here, check it out. I
twill
make feel real good about XP.


That's OK because Unix and Linux are no more secure. It can take me all
of around (ooh) 3 minutes to to delete the root password of either
system.
There are quite a few websites that provide such info about linux, so you
are not unique in your knowledge. However, without physical access it
becomes a different ballgame. And even with physical access, there are
ways to prevent someone from messing with a system. Read the following:
http://linuxgazette.net/107/tomar.html


There are also ways to prevent someone breaking into XP, even if they have
physical acces to the PC. But these precautions have to be specifically set
up someone who knows what they are doing, often with thrd party utilities.
They don't come out of the box.


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