Exactly what I was thinking. :-)
-----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 1:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Spotted this a couple of days ago... ???? pnordahl's solution has been available for years... http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/ Perhaps I'm missing something, but it reads to be the same thing. ________________________________________ From: John Aldrich [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 1:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Spotted this a couple of days ago... Hehe. I've got a similar CD. Doesn't work with domain accounts, but it'll fix local account passwords, including Admin accounts. Note, that it does not do anything for encrypted file systems, so if you've forgotten your password for your encrypted HDD, you're out of luck! Windows will boot fine, but you won't be able to read any of your encrypted documents or anything. :-) -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 12:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Spotted this a couple of days ago... Gotta love security researchers... Haven't tried this yet, but it looks, well, *interesting*... http://piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot/ >From his announcement: "No special usage instructions are required for Windows users, just boot from Kon-Boot CD/Floppy, select your profile and put any password you want. You lost your password? Now it doesnt matter at all :-)" Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.287 / Virus Database: 270.12.4/2078 - Release Date: 04/24/09 07:54:00 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.287 / Virus Database: 270.12.4/2078 - Release Date: 04/24/09 07:54:00 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
