Symantec AntiVirus Asks For Password During Uninstall
Nov17

Symantec AntiVirus Asks For Password During Uninstall

KB ID 0000894  Problem I was finishing off a domain migration this week and was changing the clients over to McAfee. On one machine I found it had Symantec AntiVirus. When I tried to remove it, it asked for a password. One of the other machines had Symantec Endpoint Protection installed and this did the same. As expected, no one knew what this password was, and the default password ‘symantec’ didn’t work. Solution...

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Cisco Router – Password Recovery /Bypass
Nov17

Cisco Router – Password Recovery /Bypass

KB ID 0000931  Problem If you have a Cisco router that you have forgotten the password for, or have been given one, or simply bought one from ebay, you may not know the password. In fact many years ago an ISP was going to charge me a ridiculas amount of money to put an entry in a routers routing table, this procedure ‘ahem’ would have allowed to to do it myself, for free, and then reload the router. Solution The reason you...

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Cisco – Cracking and Decrypting Passwords (Type 7 and Type 5)
Nov17

Cisco – Cracking and Decrypting Passwords (Type 7 and Type 5)

KB ID 0000940  Problem Decrypt Type 7 Cisco Passwords The Internet is full of sites that have something like the tool below, tap your ‘encrypted’ password in and it will reveal the Cisco password.   Input Type 7 Obfuscated Password: Output Plain Text Password: As you can see I’ve specifically written ‘obfuscated’ above, because the password isn’t actually encrypted at all. All that happens is the...

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