At 04/10/2006, James Button wrote:
In Win2K
At 04/10/2006, Arie Slob wrote:
That's normal Windows XP behavior if a password is set.
At 04/10/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Somewhere in control panel you have an Icon "administrative tasks"
click on that and navigate to users and groups.
None of that is applicable to XP Home. All of that administrative
architecture is disabled. The XP Home password does not
expire. From the XP Home command prompt, type NET ACCOUNTS and you
will see this information. The user cannot accidentally change this
behavior. You can enter NET ACCOUNTS /MAXPWAGE:x where x is the
number of days the password is valid, but I'm not sure that it
sticks. Some things that work in Pro just don't work in Home, but
I've never tried to change that particular setting. So IMHO, having
used XP Home with a password since it was released, if you are being
told the password is about to expire, the message isn't coming from Windows.
Run Spybot, Ad-Aware, etc. and see if it comes up with anything. I
checked Google, but couldn't find anything on any specific threat
that tries to glean a password in this manner.
--
Tony Lowe, The HapMaster
What if the hokey-pokey really is what it's all about?
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