Re: XP Major Security Flaw?

From: DaViD (david@hotmail.com)
Date: 01/11/03 

From: "DaViD" <david@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 13:06:40 -0000

Josh Dear wrote:
:: Does anyone elso know about this. It would appearit is
:: possible to completely bypass all security on XP by
:: logging in on safemode, typing something or other,
:: logging into an administrator account (no password is
:: asked for under safe mode) and removing the password from
:: within control panel.
::
password is asked for

:: Then you simply restart the PC and login to the admin
:: account, which no longer has a password, and assign
:: yourself privileges or simply take over the admin account
:: by adding you own password to it.
::
:: My 15 year old little brother did it right in front of my
:: eyes - removed administrator password and upgraded his
:: limited account to administrator? Does MS know about
:: this???!!