Craig Burton

Rehash: Nice Admin Exploit in XP: "

This exploit is rather old, but I really love the step-by-step demonstration of it in this video that I was sent by reader BB. Summary: - Login to your XP box as a non-priviliged user. - Open up a command window (run cmd.exe) - In that command window, have the system schedule launch another command window. (at 20:00 /intereactive "cmd.exe") - When new window opens, kill explorer.exe in task manager. - open explorer.exe - Congrats, you're now running as the system user - you have more power t

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This is nasty. What a gapping hole.