sircrumpet

hmmm, wonder if anyone here has heard more about this... http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/25/technolo...artner=homepage

ok - my one concern here (and i havent tried it yet), but what would happen if someone came along with either an ipod or a portable HDD or something with say, 60Gb of data. I'm assuming it would read it in the same way it reads a flash drive and attempt to copy and email it off, but it would take more than a few seconds to copy over 60+ GB of data, even longer to email it off, and then theres the problem of the 2ish GB limit on Gmail.

Put simply, windows is complaining about the fact that one of the files on your switchblade (pwdump.exe) is attempting to steal the SAM file - Windows reads it as an error, and shuts down your computer to "protect your system"...

Agreed, its such a simple risk, but its one that is all too often ignored. It takes just a second to apply a password, and is well worth doing.

Press Ctrl+Alt+Del Twice on the login screen (or change the settings in Control Panel) to bring up the "traditional" login (which requires you to type user name/password), enter "Administrator" and leave the password blank.

that works, however it requires that no administrator password be set, and almost any computer running XP Professional or that is in a network (or has a reasonably smart admin) will almost certainly have a password set to the root admin account.

sircrumpet- found that back on page 17...hope thats what you were looking for. -Sloth Thanks Sloth, must of missed that one - it works great :D

hmmm... what moonlit has done is great, but I still feel that encrypting the exes would be an easier way to go about things... Pseudobreed's version seems to work well (although NOD32 absolutely HATES mailpv.exe), though it does a bit too much for what i want, and as such i've been playing around and editing it a bit... I'm also extremely curious as to whether anyone has found a program similar to the "IE PassView" that is included with many of these switchblades, but that will get the passwords out of Firefox as well...

seems strange it would call home to a local IP address...

ahhhh stupid me :roll: It all makes sense now - I must of just discarded the whole "social engineering" comment describing the download Am playing with merging the two now... btw. you seem to be getting a fair bit of attention in the blogoshpere with this stuff ;)

:( Unfortunately Amish's still seems to bug me with the "What do you want windows to do" message, and it doesn't copy the LM hashes either. If anyone works out fixes for these for those of us without a spare U3 drive it would be great :)