Re: Virus damaged Administrator Account

From: Khayman (khayman_psp_nopigbottom@yahoo.se)
Date: 09/06/02 

From: "Khayman" <khayman_psp_nopigbottom@yahoo.se>
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 12:31:07 GMT

"Kathleen Atkins" <kathleen@jgatkins.com> skrev i meddelandet
news:6fdc01c2554a$8e78fdb0$9be62ecf@tkmsftngxa03...
> (Apparently) a recent klez virus damaged my Administrator
> Account, for now I cannot log on to my W2K machine. As I
> had no other users set up on the machine, I don't have a
> way to complete the boot process. Perhaps the virus
> corrupted the password field, which previously was none.
> Would anyone know of a fix for this?

This question is asked to often it's getting a bit tedious....
(Small variants exists, though -I'll give you that.)

Stephen Souza wrote this:
<quote>
Subject: Re: forgot admin password

a. http://www.sysinternals.com - ERD Commander 2002
b. http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
c. http://www.dmzs.com/tools/files/
d. http://www.nmrc.org/files/snt/index.html
e. http://www.sunbelt-software.com - NTAccess
f. http://www.2600slc.org/texts/SAM_Files.txt

These tools will allow a reset of the password
without knowing what the orginal was.
All require a re-boot of the system.

I have used options a, b, c, d. I like ERD Commander
but it is expensive, I would suggest trying
(b) ntpasswd, it does work and is free.
</quote>

Good luck!

Khay.

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