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Sunday, January 27, 2008 6:50 PM

Disabling Syskey startup password

So it happened: Windows starts up and asks for a password, and you don't know what that is. Either forgot, or didn't know the password. This is Syskey in action. What to do? You can try brute forcing the password. Syskey gives unlimited tries...
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Thursday, October 11, 2007 7:36 PM

Capturing Windows user logon traffic

I don't need to go into many details about the startup process and importance of analysing it in case of problems. Here's how I do it: The tools: Wireshark ( http://www.wireshark.org/ ) PSTools ( http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities...
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