Re: URGENT - Invoke destructive batch files on login

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As LanWench indicated, your first call needs to be to a lawyer who is well versed in intellectual property and technology.

Several court cases have already found that vendors, etc. cannot hold a company's network hostage, even for non-payment.

Good backups are the key Who is Pipex?

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"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" <lanwench@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OgqVtk02GHA.3428@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In news:eCj1Kh02GHA.1256@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Simon Gare <sg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
Hi all,

an ex contractor has changed the login password for our SBS2003
server, not only that but he has added a batch file to invoke if we
try to reset the passwords and login as administrator, see note below.

Dude, I certainly hope you've already called a lawyer. What's the reason this contractor is doing this? Is your company remiss on paying a bill?

Anyway, you couldn't simply reset the password unless you had an account you could use that had sufficient privileges to do it in the first place. Do you have a back door admin account? Do you have backup media with accessible full backups of your server?




Is this possible and is there anyway around this?

Your urgent assistance is greatly appreciated.


Regards
Simon Gare


Nicholas Jaffe wrote

" you want your application back. Don't ask Pipex to recover the
passwords, logging in as Adminstrator will invoke the startup batch
files, which will put you in an even worse position than you are
already in.
Nick"





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