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million3g   06-15-2009 at 06:14:34 PM

hey, okay here's the problem I am having. A friend of mine is having a problem where he cant log into his computer. But he told me that he did not create a password for the computer. It also has a password on the admin account as well when I go through safe mode. So I took he hard drive out and set it up as a slave on another computer and scanned with nod32 and found and clean virus's. Still asks for a password. i tried ophcrack and it could not crack it. Tried offline password and that did not work either. Only thing I can think of is that maybe someone else put a password on it without him knowing it. Anyone possibly ever hear of a virus or something thats done this before.

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MrLinux   06-15-2009 at 07:47:18 PM
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Did you make a note of the Viruses found?
If so a few minutes with Google should shed light on what they do and how to rapair any damage done.

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sturm   06-15-2009 at 08:53:37 PM
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Try the EBCD part of this page: http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_admi [...] word.htm#3

You will reset the admin password to nothing from there you can remove the password on the user account. It works. I have used it many times. Just be sure to follow the instructions exactly.

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million3g   06-16-2009 at 02:32:37 AM
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im trying to use ebcd but its looking for an ide drive but the drive is an sata drive. no i didnt take noe of the viruses found, wish i did. looks like nod32 cleaned it all out tho. any other ideas?

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million3g   06-16-2009 at 10:49:27 PM
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still asking for n pw, im stumped

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Bronze Win XP badge aford10   06-17-2009 at 04:12:13 AM
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I've never used this program, but I've heard it works.
http://www.windowspasswordsrecovery.com/

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linky1124   09-17-2009 at 08:58:51 AM
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Long time ago , I was confronted with the password problem. Finally , my friend Jane introduce the Windows password Reset.It helps me access windows. http://www.resetwindowspassword.com

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gbdg   09-20-2009 at 05:27:48 PM
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Go get this program:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

If you review this post http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/241036-45-cannot you will see that I had a very similar program. YOUR post lead me to OPHCRACK, and searching on that phrase ultimately led me to the password editor and it EASILY allowed me to delete the password. I'm back into my system for the first time in almost 2 months.

This board is great - what an incredible resource.

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blackhawk1928   09-20-2009 at 09:50:57 PM
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million3g wrote :

hey, okay here's the problem I am having. A friend of mine is having a problem where he cant log into his computer. But he told me that he did not create a password for the computer. It also has a password on the admin account as well when I go through safe mode. So I took he hard drive out and set it up as a slave on another computer and scanned with nod32 and found and clean virus's. Still asks for a password. i tried ophcrack and it could not crack it. Tried offline password and that did not work either. Only thing I can think of is that maybe someone else put a password on it without him knowing it. Anyone possibly ever hear of a virus or something thats done this before.



-What scanner did you use to scan for viruses?
-Just because it removes the virus doesn't mean the damage will be undone...

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