I was reading somewhere that the SAM file in windows is the passwords in a hash. There are programs available that will crack these for you by hashing a supplied list of words and comparing them against the hashes in the file you are trying to decrypt. Then I read that Microsoft did something to make this process a lot harder and that available software will no longer work. Is this true and what exactly did Microsoft do to prevent these types of attacks. I do not want the program that does this just information concerning how they prevented this. Also, when you have IE save passwords for you (AUTO somthing I belive) does this also go into some encrypted file or is this availabl in plain text for anyone who knows where to look?


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