Stolen Notebook and Password Security

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Eric

My computer was stolen, of course, it has a lot of
sensitive data. I have an administrator account, and a
user account, both of which have a password. Without the
password, can anyone access the pc and the data?
 
Unless you have encrypted the data, then there's any number of ways for
someone with even a little knowledge about W2K security to get the data ...
Sorry to be the bearor of bad news for you ...
 
It isn't too hard to crack the administrator password, unfortunately - there
are a lot of tools out there to do it. Sorry to hear about the theft - it's
an awful feeling!
 
Ah, Yes.. Of course your asking for the utility. Probably
because you stole a laptop. The tool you need is the NT
Password and Registry Boot Disk. A simple search on Google
will bring you the file. Pop this disk into the floppy
drive and follow the easy to understand instructions and a
few key strokes later you 0WN the machine. Unless the user
had some brains to implement a BIOS password after he
disabled the ability to boot from CD & Floppy. Which I
highly doubt.

(Yes, I know... A simple removal of the CMOS battery wipes
out the BIOS password, but it still stalls the cracker and
baffles most n00bs.)

Hope this helps.
 
Even encrypted data can be accessed on W2K fairly easily if the associated EFS
private keys had not been deleted from the machine. --- Steve
 
Even if they did, you just take out the hard drive and put it in another computer to
access the data unless data was encrypted and the private keys had been removed. ---
Steve
 
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