Important Computer Security Information

[GO SPurs Go]

o, first of all let me say that the following information about the vulnerability of your computer will shock you! If you want to share this with anyone, feel more than free to do so; all I ask is that you give me credit.

Did you know that there is a 99% chance that anyone can easily access your computer account in your home even if it not connected to the internet! Even if your computer has only one password protected account, it is a piece of cake for someone to access all your files (even if you made them private).

All someone needs to do is the following.
1. Press F8 before Windows is loaded, this will take the computer to the
operating system selection menu.
2. After selecting safe mode, an extra account (an administrator's account)
which you probably never knew existed, is shown.
3.Does it come as a big surprise that that account has no password?!!!
4.The rest is history, someone logs into the administrator account and types
in "control userpasswords2" in the run dialog box
5. Incase you are unfamiliar with the control userpasswords2 command, it
allows the person on the administrator account to delete any passwords on
other accounts.
6. So, the potential hacker deletes your password, restarts, and Bam! all
your files are his.

Try it out, its so easy even a caveman could do it, and no, thats not good!

[baseline bum]

Here's a better one:

1) I pop a Knoppix CD into your CDROM drive and turn your computer on
2) I connect a usb hard drive to your computer
3) I boot into single-user mode with the command knoppix 2
4) Now I'm in a root s .... I create a mount point for your hard drive:
mkdir /mnt/yourhd
5) I mount your hard drive:
mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/yourhd
6) I mount my FAT-32 usb drive:
mkdir /mnt/myusbdrive && mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/myusbdive
7) Now I copy your entire hard drive to mine:
cp -ra /mnt/yourhd/* /mnt/myusbdrive/
8) Shutdown your system:
shutdown
9) Grab my cd, turn off your computer, and leave, and you never know I did it

Only a dumbass doesn't put a password on his Administator account in Windows. If you want to kill the ability to do what I just posted above, put a password on your BIOS and have it boot from the hard drive only. Most computers are set to boot in this order:

1) floppy
2) cdrom
3) main hard drive

A linux floppy recovery disk works just as well if your BIOS is set to allow booting from a floppy.

[DarkReign]

Only a dumbass doesn't put a password on his Administator account in Windows. If you want to kill the ability to do what I just posted above, put a password on your BIOS and have it boot from the hard drive only. Most computers are set to boot in this order:

1) floppy
2) cdrom
3) main hard drive

A linux floppy recovery disk works just as well if your BIOS is set to allow booting from a floppy.

Bingo. In your BIOS setup (usually the delete key in bootup), there is an option to add a password. Its the most "front-end" password your computer could possibly have.

I dont have anything of significance on my puter, so I dont do it. But if you value the info you do have, this is the only way to lock folks out. (which is still bull if they have your physical computer).

[u2sarajevo]

If someone has access to your physical computer a BIOS password isn't going to keep them out of your information (the harddrive is removable). If you are THAT concerned about this happening encrypt your files.

And anyone that doesn't change the administrator password is just begging to be hacked.

[GO SPurs Go]

Yes, but many less experienced consumers probably don't even know that an administrator account exists.

[PM5K]

If I'm in your house, I'd probably just steal the whole computer, it's probably worth more than the porn and whatever other stupid nobody cares about that's on it...

[Caveman]

o, first of all let me say that the following information about the vulnerability of your computer will shock you! If you want to share this with anyone, feel more than free to do so; all I ask is that you give me credit.

Did you know that there is a 99% chance that anyone can easily access your computer account in your home even if it not connected to the internet! Even if your computer has only one password protected account, it is a piece of cake for someone to access all your files (even if you made them private).

All someone needs to do is the following.
1. Press F8 before Windows is loaded, this will take the computer to the
operating system selection menu.
2. After selecting safe mode, an extra account (an administrator's account)
which you probably never knew existed, is shown.
3.Does it come as a big surprise that that account has no password?!!!
4.The rest is history, someone logs into the administrator account and types
in "control userpasswords2" in the run dialog box
5. Incase you are unfamiliar with the control userpasswords2 command, it
allows the person on the administrator account to delete any passwords on
other accounts.
6. So, the potential hacker deletes your password, restarts, and Bam! all
your files are his.

Try it out, its so easy even a caveman could do it, and no, thats not good!

Alright, I'm getting tired of this .

[TheSanityAnnex]

I had no idea and I don't really care. Who's gonna touch my computer?

[NorCal510]

u guys are too secure. what are they gonna take... your porn?