administrator account blankt out

[Khers Sefid]

I have a winxp pro laptop which is on domain. I have previously
experienced that the password I had in domain has stopped working
after a while when I haven't had the computer on the net so I have run
the command:
net accounts /maxpwage:unlimited
But again of all the sudden when I was on vacation and away from the
domain it happened that I couldn't access the computer because it
wouldn't accept my account on domain. so I tried to access the
computer with the local administrator account, but it wouldn't accept
my password. When I tried to crack the admin-account I discoverd that
the administrator password was set to blank!! how is this possible.
(no one else has access to the computer nor did any one know the admin
password)

tnx in advance

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

If you do not put a password on the default "Administrator" account, (named explicitly that) during setup, it is blank. (It appears
on the Welcome screen during a Safe Mode boot) You created a second admin account during setup, and that's the one with your
password.

If you did indeed set one on the default account, someone used a boot floppy on your machine while you were gone. Without physical
security, no password will ever work.


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[Khers Sefid]

If you do not put a password on the default "Administrator" account, (named explicitly that) during setup, it is blank. (It appears
on the Welcome screen during a Safe Mode boot) You created a second admin account during setup, and that's the one with your
password.

If you did indeed set one on the default account, someone used a boot floppy on your machine while you were gone. Without physical
security, no password will ever work.

I am 110% sure that no one has used a boot floppy or other tings on my
machine, and I indeed had created an Administrator password during
setup.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Well, I suppose it's possible a virus or trojan got in that hacked your registry. Some "System Restore' would not do that. Even a
"Repair/Upgrade' setup would honor the registry setting. Encryption can be hacked, but I really don't see some random error actually
creating a blank admin password by accident. A changed admin password is a sure sign of tampering, and is the only real point in
having one in the first place. "When you have eliminated the impossible, what's left is the answer." : Sherlock Homes


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