Re: Administrator Password Vanished!

From: Kent W. England [MVP] (kwe@mvps.org)
Date: 12/07/02 

From: "Kent W. England [MVP]" <kwe@mvps.org>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 07:50:15 -0800

"non networked" doesn't include Internet access? If so, then I suspect,
assuming your family is above reproach, you have been hacked from the
Internet. If you haven't been keeping up-to-date on Windows security
updates or if you open email attachments without scanning them, this is
quite possible. 

-- 
Kent W. England, MS MVP for Windows XP
(Please respond only in the newsgroup)
"Daniel Ginsberg" <usenet@dg.mailshell.com> wrote in message 
news:8f83vugbib0nhegsgq0in0cmcstbrdvs1s@4ax.com...
> On my XP Pro (SP1), non-networked computer at home, I have an
> administrator account and a power-user account for my use, and 3
> limited user accounts for my family. I password protect the
> administrator and power-user accounts. Today I came home and found
> that my daughter had left the computer on as the mouse had stopped
> working. This is a problem I have been having that I think is due to a
> device conflict. In any case, when I used keyboard commands to restart
> the computer, I noted that it showed the administrator account was in
> use. This was odd since I have not told anyone my passwords (and
> they're securely chosen and not written down). After rebooting I
> discovered that anyone could log onto the administrator account as it
> was no longer password protected. All the accounts otherwise seem to
> work fine, and the power-user account was still password protected. I
> was able to add a password back to the administrator account. I have
> ZoneAlarm Pro, a Linksys Router and an up-to-date Norton AntiVirus.
> The rest of my family is not computer literate enough to hack a
> computer. Any ideas what happened to my administrator password.

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