Windows XP Password Hoax: II
Yet another “how to change the administrator password in Windows” hoax is in the wild. A recent posting on internetbusinessdaily.net shows a way to get cmd.exe to run instead of the default screen saver, and if you then issue the net user command to change the administrator password. This approach is just as flawed as the previous bogus security claims. This only works if you already have administrative privileges, so there is no need to actually do the whole copy routine outlined in the post. Just issue the net user command directly, and you’re done. Of course, you are only protected if your system uses the NTFS filesystem, as FAT32 doesn’t give you any file level security at all. Can we now stop with the bogus claims? If you have administrator access, you can change the administrators password. Gee, there’s a surprise…Post metadata
Published November 3, 2006 13:53
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