Tips and tricks: How can I increase the security of my workstations?
by the editorial team
1. First delete the password lists for all profiles on the machine.
del c:windows*.pwl
2. From the command line:
REGEDIT /s \MY_PDCnetlogonnocache.reg
This will run regedit with no program output and a registry input file named nocache.reg, which looks like this:
REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesNetwork] "DisablePwdCaching"=dword:00000001
3. Save that as plain text and name it nocache.reg.
Following these steps will greatly increase the security of your Windows 9x machines.
(Ed. note 4/4/08: This was posted for April Fool’s Day.)
April 1st, 2008 at 1:31 pm
hahahahahha
April 1st, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Oh and make sure if you are on a Vista workstation, turn off User Account Control and use the Users control panel menu to remove the password for the Administrator account. This will prevent anyone from guessing the password and compromising your system.
April 1st, 2008 at 5:27 pm
I am not sure.. I just tried this on my main Windows 98 system, and I can not login anymore. But I know someone is logged in because the little network light is blinking quite a bit. I want to know why all that legitimate adware I installed is able to work on my system, but I can’t!
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:44 am
This strikes me as a very foolish April Fools joke.
The fact that there is no obvious reason to distrust this source makes this post potentially very dangerous. (It’s not even dated, so a week from now, when Aprils Fools is completely forgetten, this will still be available on the Web) I suppose they’ll be sniggers of laughter all around when a potential RedHat customer calls up and complains that you’ve completely screwed up his previously working computer.
I suppose the only redeeming feature is that fact that the post contains invalid commands, of course again, to an innocent reader, who attempts to run the commands, RedHats reputation is again sullied.
Nice work. How much did you get paid for that ?
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:00 am
Lighten up Jackie.
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Jack–
It is dated. And has a link to information about April Fool’s. And is for products so old, they haven’t been officially supported in two years. And for what it’s worth, bad commands or not, is advice from a site that actually is about security for Win users.
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Very funny.