Well, I'm not sure where this topic goes, But I thought it might help from flamming if someone told people how to change their Admin Passwords on their computer so:
• First, Go to Start
• Next, go to Run
• Then, Tyep in 'cmd'
• After that, Type in 'net_user'
• Then, type in 'net_user_(insert main account name here)
• After that, Type in 'net_user_(insert main account name here)_*'
• Finally, Type in a new password
Full Version: How To Change Your Admin Password
Wouldn't it be easier to go to control panel > manage accounts > change password?
Not exactly. This would be made, well lets say you have a virus. If you did that and the virus had a keylogger, it would just change your password back.
While your in CMD a keylogger wouldn't work.
While your in CMD a keylogger wouldn't work.
Boot into safe mode > administrator > change password from there.
Edit: I actually had to do that the other day so that my sister could get on my brother's darn computer with Office 2007 on it.
Edit: I actually had to do that the other day so that my sister could get on my brother's darn computer with Office 2007 on it.
Safe Mode....
It might not work. That would be very good if you can get into 'Safe Mode'.
Some Trojin's and such probably wouldn't allow Safe Mode to work, it happened to my sister's computer, So, I actually hook up her computer to mine so I could hack into her CMD pad and get her password changed. After that, the virus would be weakened by not knowing or having all the data.
It might not work. That would be very good if you can get into 'Safe Mode'.
Some Trojin's and such probably wouldn't allow Safe Mode to work, it happened to my sister's computer, So, I actually hook up her computer to mine so I could hack into her CMD pad and get her password changed. After that, the virus would be weakened by not knowing or having all the data.
I guess that would work.
Thanks for the tip.
Thanks for the tip.
You're new so you probably don't know this, but I don't recall any flamming in this board because a user couldn't change their computer account password. Like Redmonke mentioned in post two, this isn't different than the GUI account management.
If you have a virus, then the course of action depends on the individual virus. You can't group all viruses together and believe they all do the same thing. You're also misinformed about how keyloggers work. It doesn't matter what application you're typing in, whether it's a GUI or a command-line, it will log your keystrokes. Booting your computer in Safe Mode is a wise course of action because that cuts the connection between your computer and the malicious user. The program won't be able to relay what you type. You should remove the threat before changing any passwords.
If you have a virus, then the course of action depends on the individual virus. You can't group all viruses together and believe they all do the same thing. You're also misinformed about how keyloggers work. It doesn't matter what application you're typing in, whether it's a GUI or a command-line, it will log your keystrokes. Booting your computer in Safe Mode is a wise course of action because that cuts the connection between your computer and the malicious user. The program won't be able to relay what you type. You should remove the threat before changing any passwords.
QUOTE (Agent F @ Mar 27 2009, 07:54 PM) 
You're new so you probably don't know this, but I don't recall any flamming in this board because a user couldn't change their computer account password. Like Redmonke mentioned in post two, this isn't different than the GUI account management.
If you have a virus, then the course of action depends on the individual virus. You can't group all viruses together and believe they all do the same thing. You're also misinformed about how keyloggers work. It doesn't matter what application you're typing in, whether it's a GUI or a command-line, it will log your keystrokes. Booting your computer in Safe Mode is a wise course of action because that cuts the connection between your computer and the malicious user. The program won't be able to relay what you type. You should remove the threat before changing any passwords.
If you have a virus, then the course of action depends on the individual virus. You can't group all viruses together and believe they all do the same thing. You're also misinformed about how keyloggers work. It doesn't matter what application you're typing in, whether it's a GUI or a command-line, it will log your keystrokes. Booting your computer in Safe Mode is a wise course of action because that cuts the connection between your computer and the malicious user. The program won't be able to relay what you type. You should remove the threat before changing any passwords.
Ah, yes, that's correct. I've been working with the dang thing called Ubuntu, and I've realized (after using that freaking terminal forever) that those commands I was doing could easily be done with a simple gui that edited it for me.
Too bad kgrubeditor was down last week. I had to edit grubloader all by myself.
Editing grubloader yourself is easy. It's self-explanatory. ~fini
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