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Vista - RE: Break into a locked Windows via flash screen savers

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Old 07-08-2008   #1 (permalink)
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RE: Break into a locked Windows via flash screen savers



"xxp9" wrote:
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> Hi I'm xxp9 at hotmail dot com. I found that one can easily break into a
> locked Windows XP when a screen saver based on Adobe Flash Player is on.
> Click your right mouse button you'll get the context menu of the flash
> player. Then click "about Adobe Flash Player..." from the menu you'll get an
> IE!
>
> Then you can follow the famous "IME security hole". Run
> "c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe" from
> IE(open another IE window from "File"->"new window" if you failed to run
> cmd.exe from the first one), input
>
> net user xxp /add *
> net localgroup administrators xxp /add
>
> to get the administrator's permission.
>
> I also post in my blog, though, in Chinese, at xxp9 dot spaces dot live dot
> com
>
>
>
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