bugtraq - Re: Vulnerability in IBM Windows XP: default hidden Administrator account allows local Administrator access

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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:34:06 -0500
From: "Chris Norton" <kicktd_list@...mail.com>
To: "Michael Scheidell" <scheidell@...nap.net>, <mwwilson@...o.hpc.mil>,
   <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>, <vulnwatch@...nwatch.org>,
   <full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com>
Subject: Re: Vulnerability in IBM Windows XP: default hidden Administrator account allows local Administrator access


Let me clear up what I ment to say:
The blank administrator account is not all IBM's fault.
If IBM is to add that screen, Which has been there since
XP came out. How many people would set a password?
Talking about the general home user. I would say about 60%
of XP installs on a home computer do not have an administrator
password and the local login administrator/blank has been known
about for some time. The reseting the password message is indeed
not from IBM but in Microsoft XP itself. I just went to change my
administrator password and indeed I got this warning.
--
Chris Norton 
UAT Student Software Engineering Network Defense

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