Aug 8 2008, 03:06 PM
QUOTE(FarCry3r @ Aug 8 2008, 11:56 AM)
what obviously? the only obvious thing I see here is you know nothing. There's tools that can completely remove all Windows passwords, including Administrator password. The solution? Install Universal Shield, the next best thing to sex when protecting your files. It installs as a service so no one can disable it. If anyone try to uninstall, it will ask for password, if wrong password given, it will fake the uninstallation process. You can choose to hide the whole drive (just make sure you didn't hide your drive that have Windows files in it), a folder or just a single file, your wish. Then your brother will be fcuked up and he'll give up someday because he won't be able to crack it unless he can bring teh hard disk to another PC and play the game there...
I did try with XP installed with my VM. It was easy enough to go to safe mode and disable the service so that you can log on as build-in local admin account.It was a little tricky for those protected files. I could actually see those files once in safe mode so I figured something has to be loaded in normal startup. And then I come across this one:
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/745431#
lol?
So simple solution.
The only protection that cannot be undone or take a seriously long time to undo is probably encryption based protection. I'm pretty sure you cannot encrypt the whole HD itself without affecting the booting of XP. In any case, you can override the local admin password (in fact, any users password, and if you're smart enough, you can even change it back so that they don't know you did it) using a LiveCD. Anyhow, he'll be able to boot into the system. So in other words, the solution you provided is not as godly as you think.
Know nothing huh? zzz
Added on August 8, 2008, 3:18 pmFor OP, you won't be able to stop him from boot-up and log-on to your PC if he really want to because he don't even need a CD-ROM drive to do so.
BIOS password protection can be reset easily and those USB holes are everywhere on modern PC nowadays.
This post has been edited by da3shou3: Aug 8 2008, 03:18 PM
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