From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:3e7832ec.3786274{at}216.144.1.254...
> At command prompt, enter:
>
> runas /user:administrator cmd
>
> You will be prompted to enter a password. Just press Enter
> (blank password). Does it work?

Nope.


> What I'm getting at is, your username might have a great
> password, but what about Administrator?

I was actually talking about my Admin password. My user account password
has only 12 characters, it's not nearly as difficult but should still be
strong enough. (plus I have changed both of them because of this)


> BTW I noticed today that Symantec has quite a good write up on
> what sounds to be your problem. I forget if I searched for "vnc" or
> "winvnc". They talked about removing the trojan.

Cool, thanks - I'll check it out tomorrow.


> Personally, I would wipe and reinstall, as ghastly as that is.

I'll probably do that as a safety measure next week, but right now I just
can't afford the downtime (14 hours of programming today...)


Antti Kurenniemi

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