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  1. August 19th, 2003, 08:14 PM #21
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    LOL.. there's no need to ask..
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  2. August 20th, 2003, 04:03 AM #22
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    I renamed the admin account and password protected it. Then just to frustrate anyone who might ever manage to get in I made a very limited guest account and named it "administrator." Then to make it even more fun I put a password on it about 30 characters long including letters (upper and lower) numbers & symbols. So if anyone were to get in they will try to hit the admin account and have to crack that huge password just to get into a guest account that wont be able to do anything.
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  3. August 20th, 2003, 09:32 PM #23
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    hehe, thats standard you know.

    Theres a very good tut on Locking down XP machines in AO somewhere, I'm to lazy to find it, but I know it's there...
    With all the subtlety of an artillery barrage / Follow blindly, for the true path is sketchy at best. .:Bring OS X to x86!:.
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  4. December 22nd, 2004, 01:17 AM #24
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    Windows XP was designed with a built in administrator account in safe mode to allow access even if you forgot your password and or change settings to accounts prevent breaches in security, etc.

    The only way I'm aware to prevent people from not logging on is actually creating a account named "Adminstrator" and adding a "Password" that way when it boots in safe mode there is an account in normal mode named it and ask for a password.

    Or you can go into "Computer-Management" and rename the account or just add a password. Up to you which way you'd like. People would be aware that you've got a "administrator" account but they wouldn't have password or you could rename it making it a little bit harder for people to actually find the account.
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  6. December 22nd, 2004, 01:19 AM #25
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    I really, really feel bad for the person who waste his time to crack that account just to find out it's a guest account. Uh, I would be so ticked. Good idea though.
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  7. December 22nd, 2004, 07:05 AM #26
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    Some months ago on another security forum we were talking about XP's hidden
    account and some guy wrote that if any account in XP has a blank password no
    remote login is avaliable to it he said that the only way somebody could get to
    the hidden admin account would be if they had physical access to the computer.
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  8. December 22nd, 2004, 03:04 PM #27
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    hmmm...logging into safmode on XP allows you to login as admin? What will stop a power user from installing a VNC server service after admin loggin? Once that is done, the hacker will watch the screen and wait for the admin to goto lunch or something.
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