Win NT - Internet Security Alert (fwd)

[Rich Graves <win-request@metrics.com>]

I'm not approving this for comp.os.ms-windows.announce, but I figure it's
on-topic here (what isn't?). I was intrigued by their "proprietary
procedures to recover Windows NT installation with a lost administrator's
password." 

(The procedure I'd suggest: boot from a DOS or Linux floppy with an NTFS
driver. Back up all the application and data files you want saved. Reformat
the drive, install NT, and restore the saved files.) 

By the way, did you hear the one about the Microsoft tech support
recommendation to put the perl.exe interpreter into a world-executable
directory? www.bugnet.com

-rich

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: 15 Aug 1996 19:50:47 GMT
From: MWC@news.ee.net, "Inc. NT Security team" <NTSecurity@box.omna.com>
To: comp-os-ms-windows-announce@uunet.uu.net
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.announce, comp.os.ms-windows.misc,
    comp.os.ms-windows.networking.misc,
    comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip
Subject: Win NT - Internet Security Alert



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