RE: I'm in ur obsolete softwares, bypassin ur logons

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

On 10 March 2007 17:22, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 07:45:44AM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
>> http://epiclogon.ytmnd.com/
>> 
>> This shows a trick to bypass the logon prompt of win98 without ever
>> entering a password.  It's noteworthy only because of the
>> creativeness... not that win9x actually had anything going for it in the
>> security department, since you could just as easily boot from a floppy
>> and just delete *.pwd (or whatever those stored login password files
>> were called) in the windows dir.  Or one of a million other ways to
>> bypass the non-existant security.
> 
> Pretty cool but couldn't you bypass the "security" just by hitting Esc,
> too?
> 
> cgf

  I remember that working on WfW and '95, but perhaps they stopped it in later
versions.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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