Re: MAJOR SECURITY FLAW IN WINDOWS XP - RESET ADMIN PASSWORD

From: Rod (fake@fake.com)
Date: 07/13/02 

From: "Rod" <fake@fake.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 08:05:39 -0700

This has been known for years, winternal's system commander will do this for
you.

"Paul Brown" <small_brown@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1965c01c22a4f$758cf430$35ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA11...
> I have found a security loop hole with windows xp that
> allows you to set the administrator password to anything
> you want!
>
> I was browsing the knowledge base and found an article on
> how to reset a corrupted registry. By backing up the
> files SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, DEFAULT & SYSTEM from
> the 'windows\system32\config\' directory and replacing
> them with the same files from 'windows\repair' (a backup
> of the registry from the orignal windows load) On my
> machine I had since changed the administrator password
> and upon reseting these files namely the SAM file my
> password went back to its original setting. I then tested
> this further by changing the administrator password
> to "password" copying the files to cd and replacing the
> registry files on my laptop. this worked and i logged in
> as administrator. The machine was terribly slow, probably
> due to the registry being changed to that from a
> different machine but I had managed to login as
> administrator within minutes. Please give some feedback
> on these findings.

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