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is there any difference between the SAm file in system32 and in HKLM registry; do both store passwords? why am i unable to see contents of SAM in system32 while key values of SAM registry can be viewed? How do ophcrack retrieve these files?

really sorry for posting the topic in many sections, i had lost my patience, really sorry and thank you very much for ur replies

sum1 pls repy?!!!?!!

i am a bit new to this fascinating world of networking and security, just wanted to know a few things which i could not understand by googling. i was running Nessus scanner on a friends computer who is on a different subnet and the nessus scanner gave a conclusion: The remote host is on a different logical network. However, it is on the same physical subnet. An attacker connecting from the same network as your Nessus scanner is on could reconfigure his system to force it to belong to the subnet of the remote host. This makes any filtering between the two subnets useless. i have a few doubts: 1.how do i know whether the subnets are logical or physical without using these software or what does Nessus actually do to work out whether the subnetting is logical or not? 2. does a router connects logical subnets, physical subnet or both? 3.Suppose my block has been given the address 10.100.95.x is there any way that i can "belong" to some other subnet like 10.100.98.x , which Nessus warned of?? (obviously without physically moving there ;) ) what does it mean by "reconfiguring to force a computer"???? i tried googling this but found basic stuff like changing ip address or changing subnet mask, i use windows vista and ubuntu 8.10 pls sort out my queries, thanks in advance