Re: Administration password

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Date: 9 Mar 2005 13:47:41 +0200

Pete <pete@lotech.co.uk> wrote:
>On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 15:25:17 +0100, John
><john.veldhuisSTOPSPAM@universal.nl> wrote:
>
>>> He wouldn't be able to install a key-Logger without the admin password
>>> though, so how did he get it. I had not written it down anywhere and
he
>>> wasn't in the house when I set up the admin password ???
>>
>>An alternative way of installing a keylogger would be to boot from a dos

>>floppy, load ntfspro, and replace a dll with one of his own that does
>>the same, and a little extra... No admin rights necessary.
>
>That's scary, if I understand you correctly.
>
>I would hope for something like a firewall (if installed) detecting this
>modified file (say Kerio 2.1.5 with MD5SUM checking) and halting it until
>it's 'ok'd' manually, and also blocking or at least prompting a user that
>something is trying to connect out, or, back to localhost for some kind
of
>logging server ?
>
>Getting back to what you said, is it really that easy ? It can't be surely
?
>Just configure one of these salvage programs and you're in ? No admin
>password ?
>
>I read this page after reading your post :
>
>http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfsdospro.shtml
>
>I couldn't see any mention of having to enter any passwords, but I'm not
too
>familiar with this kind of stuff. It just kind of wrinkles my shorts that
>all someone would need to get into my system locally, would be something
>like ntsfdospro or ntfspro.
>
>Regards,
>
>Pete.
>

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