Re: Password Changed

From: mholzemer (mholzemer@~autotown.com)
Date: 07/31/02


From: "mholzemer" <mholzemer@~autotown.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 19:21:29 -0700


You need the worlds most dangerous disk. It is a open source utility
Get it here
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

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"wombat" <wombat@privacyx.com> wrote in message
news:OYoH2zCOCHA.1756@tkmsftngp08...
> "Joel" <jlrush@pol.net> wrote in message
> news:342601c23813$a4001c80$3bef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA10...
> > Follow up to my earlier post.
> > Our adminstrator for our small company left, but before
> > walking out the door he changed the Windos loging
> > password on his computer.  Is there anyway to get past
> > the login password without knowing it or do we have to
> > reinstall 2000 professional to gain acces to his computer?
>
> Go to google.com and type:
>
> recover administrator password windows 2000
>
> HOWEVER
>
> If your former admin was enough of a jerk that he changed the password
> without telling you, he very well may have left some nasty surprises on
the
> system.  Virus?  Trojan?  Backdoor?  Who knows.  Better safe than sorry,
> format the system and reinstall.
>
>
>