Password protection question

elektra-2007

I have question for all you techies out there!

If a computer is password protected is it possible to hack into it?
Im talking about the windows administrator account.

I had a row with a friend today about this, he says he knows sombody who has written a programme that can hack any password, But I said unless he can get into the system to load the programme it wont work anyway.
Who is right?
Surley if you put a password on your operating software, nobody will be able to hack in and use it?

Browntoa

I can boot the PC with a linux CD and remove the passwords or add a new admin user and then boot into windows and remove it from there

so afraid you are wrong

puppet1984

its easy to do with a boot disk as the previous user said

bat999

puppet1984 wrote: »

its easy to do with a boot disk as the previous user said

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Unless the PC is set not to boot from CD and the BIOS is password protected.

Browntoa

http://www.recoveranypassword.com/recover/windows-password-recovery/

RobTang

The thing is in theory you can hack any password using a brute force method, doest mean its any good or sophisiticated.

googler

Am I right in suggesting that any password protection on a single HDD with OS will be rendered useless if whoever wants to get at it merely;

Removes it from the PC where it is the primary drive at present, and
Installs it as the secondary, non-booting, drive in another PC?

closed

yes, unless it's encrypted.

Hammyman

Seconded. Encryption is the only way. With Windows Vista and Windows 7, you can use Bitlocker on the higher versions. Mac OS X and Linux come with the option to encrypt the drive built in.