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Some Defficult questions with 500 points

Q1.When I run a Trojan hourse on my XP pro that formatted with NTFS and some hacker want to view my encrypted documents , can he do ? can he copy any file ?

Q2.If the hacker log in my machine from Internet , which Account will he use ? Can he success to grant him self Administrative rights ?

Q3.If my laptop was stolen and I have some encrypted documents and the password were very strong , can any body read my docs ? (NTFS 5.0 and EFS) ? what will occure if HD stolen ?


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1: Yes if he cracks your encryption. To get into the filesystem is simple...
2: Whatever account he can get ahold of.. Generally youre quite safe if you have only the nessecary accounts on your system, and use passwords witch is "secure" Ie: A993bQf!rBz or something...
3:Yes, not anybody.. but if someone would spend time on it they could...
In most cases where Laptops are stolen its just sold on and reformatted.. Thus the chance of stuff getting into wrong hands is small.. Thats if the thief was not after something that he knew you had and he wanted..
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By the way.  

I am assuming we are talking about a stand-alone machine.  Things are quite different in a distributed computing environment (ie. Domain).  

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>> To Reset the password on file that you have local access to check out this link:

What I meant to say:

To Reset the password on a computer (running W2K or XP) assuming you have local access to the machine check out this link:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

Jonathan