Need some assistance.

Sold one of my personal machines to a "friend". At least I thought he was.
Fresh install of XP Pro with SP3.
Had all defenses installed and was ready to go.
NO password protection enabled.
The next day, I got a call from him saying the machine had a virus.
He had gotton another person to look at it and was told that MalwareBytes and SAS was conflicting with each other.:confused Because of that, he wanted his money back. How could they conflict since neither started at boot but were set as on-demand?
OK. I went and retrieved the machine and went home.
Upon hooking it up and trying to check it out, what do I find?:confused
Unable to login. Password protected on bootup now.:cry
Tried NTPasswd disk and Trinity Recovery.
Neither helped.
Has me scratching my head.

 

Hey, hrlow2.

Is this a setup password or a Windows logon? And, desktop or laptop?

Friend/ex-friend won't give you the password? Jeez...rolleyes

 

Logon password. Desktop.
"Friend" is upset that I sold him a virus ridden machine.rolleyes
How when it had just had a fresh install?

 

This is the machine in question.


http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=231037

 

Sounds like he tried to load some stuff on the machine and got burned - probably starting hitting the pr0n sites from the starting gate without a/v shields up.

No way MBytes and SAS could have caused anything - I've got them both loaded on multiple machines, both free and paid versions, never a problem.

Frankly, if I were in your shoes, I'd flatten the drive and reinstall Windows - no telling what he or his cohort did.

 

What I was thinking

 

I've had to have a PWcracker many times. The best one I've used is OPHcracker http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=on&q=ophcrack&spell=1&sa=X
I would have told him to piss off. but that's just me. It's a bootable CD, that will give you the PW
I prob would have checked out the inside of it just to make sure he didn't swap out any of the RAM, or HD's or whatever.

 

to lego126
Did ALL of that.
My language wasn't quite so polite.
Just finished installing a Linux version on the machine.
Test driving PC/OS for a while.
See how it does for F@H.