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From: scheidell at secnap.net (Michael Scheidell) Subject: RE: Vulnerability in IBM Windows XP: default hidden Administrator account allows local Administrator access during the installation of retail xp pro, you are advised strongly to add a password to the administrator account. do the research fully, or believe that we already did it. get a copy of retail xp pro and do a clean install, photograph the screens and prove me wrong. -----Original Message----- From: Chris Norton [mailto:kicktd_list@...mail.com] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 4:34 PM To: Michael Scheidell; 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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